2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What's with all the threads about Sanders? This is DU. He is NOT [View all]R B Garr
(17,377 posts)And he was only vaguely asked about that in a debate, and he blamed it on the Governor. How lame. If he's out there spearheading this monumental change in policy that will be implemented nationally, and he can't even get a tiny state with not even a million people to go for it, of course people are going to notice that.
And the whole idea of policy differences -- you're only kidding those who were gullible about Bernie's "policies" Who doesn't like to dream. But when I go to an auto dealer to buy a new car and he wants to show me a $100,000 Mercedes when a we can barely get a $20,000 Toyota, then it's a colossal waste of time. My analogy is related to the expensive social policies that sound dreamy compared to practical daily obtainable things like building on existing policies. Bernie has already compromised on the minimum wage after viciously attacking Clinton about her $12/hour proposal. These kinds of vacuous, vicious attacks on Clinton took a toll. The GOP is the party of unreality, but it was unwieldy and damaging to have it happen for the extended period of time it was allowed in the primary. Bernie lost early on, but he decided to go scorched earth for his repetitive talking points, all to no good end.
So it turns out that all that hot air during the primary just caused bitter divisiveness since it was not based in reality. Look at Bernie now settling for $10/hr. That's the kind of hypocrisy of Naders and Sanders that people notice. Nader told some whoppers himself.
And Bernie lost Florida. Hillary won Florida. So your analogy is more fail.