2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Wall Street is not mythical in terms of its influence on the political and economic system.
The tiny number of people on Wall Street who write checks to us insist that we only be progressive on issues where they won't face any personal sacrifice OR any loss of dominance over the working and nonworking poor.
BTW, in case you didn't notice, the results prove that Wall Street money doesn't do us any good. It's useless to get big donations if thre donations don't actually lead to our candidates being elected.
And there's no evidence that any large number of Sanders supporters voted for Trump in the fall. Most voted for Hillary, some for Stein, some for Johnson(that choice makes no sense to me, either). I'd say a far larger number didn't vote at all. And while they should have voted, our party's dismissive "you lost-know your place" attitude towards Sanders supporters in general did play at least some role in causing them to make that choice.
If you want people to vote for you, is it REALLY asking too much to treat them with respect and to treat what they care about with respect? It's not as if there are large groups of people elsewhere in the spectrum who voted for us but ONLY did so because Sanders people were dissed.