How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win.

[DanTex]

193. That's exactly the kind of nonsense the Bernie campaign was peddling.

Conspiracy theories about a "rigged primary" (he lost by 10 points, by the way, it wasn't a close race). Boogeymen like "DLC corporate bootlicker pals". It's totally absurd, reads like something from one of those fake news websites that Trump likes retweeting. If you care about actual policies -- minimum wage, green jobs programs, union rights -- the Dems are on the right side of all those issues but the GOP has been blocking them. And anyone with half a clue about how the government works knows that (hint: congress writes the laws, not the president).

I'll concede one point, though. Bernie isn't entirely to blame. Like the racism that Trump pushed throughout the election, these loony conspiracy theories about "corporate Dems" selling out the working class by not waterboarding Paul Ryan into voting for liberal policies were around before Bernie. There were already low information lefties on the fringes that believed that kind of junk. What Bernie did is he brought it out into the mainstream.

I'm glad that you voted straight D, but other people who bought into Bernie's anti-"establishment" propaganda didn't. By your own admission, you're "done" with the Democratic Party, well other people like you decided they were "done" before this election, based on the same Democrat-blaming falsehoods that Bernie's primary campaign was trafficking in.

Hillary Clinton was a flawed candidate in many ways. The email server was a mistake, and she doesn't have the charisma of natural politicians like Bill Clinton or Obama. But to claim that the Democratic Party "doesn't give a shit about the systemic economic issues that continue to plague the working class of this country" is preposterous.