In all the "Bernie would have won/No he wouldn't" posts I've read...........

[Jakes Progress]

131. You are underestimating reality.

Yep. There is a lot of anti sentiment in the country. All kinds. I've got a boatload of it myself.

But my perspective about Bernie and the media is not off base. It is consistent with the events as they happened. Yours are wishful thinking and sour grapes. Had the press covered Bernie, he would have been out in weeks. I mean coverage like other candidates. You didn't want stories about his past, about his wife and the college, about his writings. You wanted stories about how many people (who didn't know much about him) were turning him into a celebrity, cheering his funny, funky behavior and iconoclastic ranting. I liked that story too. It just wasn't the whole story. Hillary and her team knew the stuff that would get him run out of the race, but they couldn't use it because it would hack off the voters they needed that didn't care about reality, who needed the celebrity stuff. Just like trumpers, they would have forgiven anything he said or any hypocrisy he uttered because he was their guy. And they were so cool because they picked him. It made them feel good about themselves.

Hillary never told the truth about Bernie, and if she had, he would have been out of there race, and you would have hated her for telling the truth. You say he only told the truth about Hillary. You only seem to know the truth that the MSM wants you to know. Bernie knew better. In the early part of the race he praised her. He knew her to be honest and well-qualified. He just wanted to get that message out that you mentioned. Then he got turned into the celebrity that so many need to fire them up. Because of media collusion, he was a "contender". The cranky socialist who had spent a lifetime shouting at walls and bushes was being lauded. So when it became apparent that he was not even close to winning the nomination, he got desperate and kept the praise coming by slipping into the right wing stories.

Getting his message out was a good thing. Making it personal so that all his fervid followers could get angry and stamp their little feet that their hero was going to be a victim of reality and then take it out on Hillary was not a good thing. He knows that. He just didn't think trump had a chance. Now he has to live with the shame that he shares with the third party candidates and any of the selfish small minds who didn't vote for Hillary, who didn't realize that they were just victims of the "vast right wing conspiracy" that has been at work on her for a couple of decades. Reading and studying are good thing. But you have to be open to having history and reality into your world.

His message has been lost because he (and his most fervent supporters) put themselves ahead of the message.