2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A few observations on "progressives" I've noticed from this election [View all]Historic NY
(37,854 posts)most people try to get through every day. We have gone forward the past eight years, while others remained behind the previous eight years to spend 16yrs building the movement that never happened. Those that felt let down by Obama went out of their way to bash Clinton at every possible minute during the primary's and the general election. They hitched themselves to Sanders or the Greens. Well the movement stalled with the November 8th flush....Bernie the other guy that didn't release his taxes went on to cash in and buy another house, write a book, and continue to trash talk the election. They will all now live another 4 or 8 years of talking about resisting and firing up a movement. We will be bombarded by the same bullshit again, all while they want purity tests to find the perfect candidate. The search for FDR, his time came and went, most of those clamoring for him don't seem to know much beyond the PBS special, because many weren't even alive. A centralist would look pretty good now in the WH, compared to the largest collection of wealth now collected together in Herr Trumps uber military-financial composite administration.