2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It kills me to come to a gathering place for democrats [View all]Gothmog
(154,638 posts)Math is an important concept and you do not realize that Sanders had no chance whatsoever of being the nominee. The Clinton lead following Super Tuesday was too large for Sanders to over come. At the end, Clinton had four time the lead in pledged delegates over Sanders compared to the lead that President Obama had over Hillary Clinton in 2008. The fact is that Sanders lied or mislead his followers following Super Tuesday. In past contests, the candidates were all real members of the Democratic Party and so they conceded when it was clear that could not win. Sanders was not a true member of the Democratic Party and kept his campaign going based on misrepresentations to his supporters. In past campaigns, the candidates who were members of the Democratic Party and who cared about the Democratic Party conceded and worked from day one to elect the nominee. That did not happen in 2016,
The fact that Sanders did not concede at the same time as Clinton. I was at both the 2008 and 2016 Texas Democratic State conventions. The differences were amazing. Hillary Clinton had conceded three or four days before the convention and so the credentials fights and other disputes went away. In 2016, we had a very disruptive and non-unifying convention with Bernie bros being very nasty. That carried on to the general election. I know of several bernie supporters who bragged in meetings of the young democrats (where one of my daughters was present) that they got voters to vote for Stein while blockwalking for other local candidates. I doubt that this was an isolated incident.
Sanders platform was based on unrealistic promises that he could never delivered on and as a result Sanders supporters had unrealistic expectations through out the process. I saw this at the DNC.
The fact that you do not want to address these facts amuses me. Math is important in the real world.
I am sorry that you feelings are hurt. I continue to be amused that you think that you are right.