2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump, but the real question is [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)It's your blindness to facts that lets you only think of two ridiculous possibilities about why Bernie failed to win the votes of actual voters.
When your premise is incorrect, anything you build on that is also incorrect. Bernie simply had no policies, he simply did not win votes of the majority of Democratic voters, possibly because he and his people:
1) Kept trying to blame their losses on cheating that didn't happen, other than the hacking of databases that his own campaign engaged in, and then sued over when caught and punished.
2) He and his people spent their time attacking Democrats, liberals and progressives who questioned his lack of concrete policies and reliance on slogans as he abused the very methods that are required in the real world to achieve progress. Calling people corrupt and various other names is not a way one wins votes.
So, there was no corruption or cheating, Bernie lost because of his failure to win the votes of voters and he and his campaign and followers were busy insulting and brow beating people and continue doing so on boards dedicated to Democrats, where such bashing is not allowed.