2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe political immaturity of remarks like "Hillary is a Republican"
worries me because I believe due to naivete and immaturity, many will have the attitude of "I will take my ball and go home if I dont get my way".
Some Hillary supporters may decide to do this, but many more Bernie supporters seem to be willing to do this already.
Not only do we need all of us but we need more than us, we need folks out there who arent excited about it, to get excited.
Cant do that if Hillary is the nominee, you say?
Bullshit, you can do that if you stop attacking her, you can actually build an excitement for her for several reasons.
Here is my promise, I will vote for whoever it is I want in the primary, but then I will pivot like a ballet dancer doing "The Nutcracker" if my choice loses.
Now get excited, stay excited, and beat those god damn rightwingers!
p.s. for the record, I am a supporter of Bernie Sanders.
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)As far as I know...
yourout
(7,531 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)not excite me.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)hugs him to her bosom.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Sure you are.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)I'll refrain from saying more.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)long time, what confuses you is you have seen me post positive things about Hillary and negative things about Bernie supporters.
I do that because I understand the issues better than some and because I have seen a lot of garbage coming from certain folks, an example would be you here questioning my honesty.
Yes, not only a Bernie supporter but I have friends who had not heard of him who are now voting for him AND donating to his campaign.
You should be ashamed of yourself but you wont be.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)I understand the Ignore function of this site. Welcome to it.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)However, it's not up to me to tell you to be ashamed of yourself. Just do the homework for yourself to understand what level of support each candidate receives from their volunteers AND WHY.
I'm too busy to draw you up a personalized lesson plan on who is supporting Bernie Sanders and the associated attributes. Hopefully, you understand this in time.
Good luck in your quest to know who supports Bernie. Maybe then you will not make it a point to go after his supporters without knowing them.
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)It isn't counterproductive either. Unless that is measured exclusively by your goalposts.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Jesus, the damage you people are doing, it is amazing and you wont stop, you wont admit it when you are wrong.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Perhaps you should choose your words a little more carefully.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)fellow liberals, I lose it sometimes.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)But everything you post follows a script that is As Old As The Hills.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)Her dirty campaign tactics are a different - and disqualifying - story.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)This is tit for tat thing. One camp lobs a grenade, then the other camp retailiates. Then people dig their heels in.
It seems like one camp is playing increasingly dirty politics.
Members of the media with ties to that camp are showing a bias. We had less than transparent caucus results in Iowa and then the losing candidate in New Hampshire receiving the pledges of a disproportionate share of its superdelegates.
You can't expect to play dirty and go for the jugular and then have the other side take it and get onboard at some future point.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)political immaturity - think again
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)mature, big picture if you wont vote for her in the GE.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Don't even get me started on her neoconservativsm
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)is a bad idea.
Do any of you get it yet?
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)She not an honest person.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Dear god, I really am worried.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)I will do well regardless of who's in power, so I've decided to ride with the candidate who isn't a whole subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. I'm sorry about jumping all over you.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)We can welcome Kissinger back into the White House.
Does this make you happy?
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)sounds like "Agree with me or you're not very well developed"
Good luck with that tactic.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)I have no intention of staying home, but as of right now, I have no intention of EVER supporting Hillary, who I believe to be dishonest and corrupted.
She can change that perception, but I don't see that move coming from her campaign or her allies, just more bullshit.
You're talk of maturity, but is it mature to never learn from your past mistakes?
Hillary doesn't seem to have learned, but I have.
dragonfly301
(399 posts)it's not political immaturity - it's that we've been paying attention for so long that we remember when republicans were exactly like her. Nelson Rockerfeller for example - moderate with ties to big banking.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)Hillary's enthusiasm deficit is her own doing because she doesn't have a clear and compelling message. She talks out of both sides of her mouth. I disagree with her on several issues, but of great importance is insuring that social security is solvent when I am ready to retire. My age group (45-55) pays more federal taxes than any other - I've been paying into SS my whole life. Yet SS may not be there for me. Hillary has not committed to raising the SS cap so that benefits will NOT be cut for those of us who will need it in the future. I have a real problem with that, as should every American.
Aside from the issues, waging a negative campaign and resorting to dirty campaign tricks meant to damage the integrity of her opponent just leaves a bad taste in our mouths. She did it to Obama and she's doing it to Sanders. You can't expect people to fall in line and 'get excited' if she's the nominee. I think the lesser of two evils reason for voting is wearing thin with a lot of us, and definitely won't work with young voters.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)you are right.
Maybe stop saying that and then IF you need her, she then is viable.
This is about winning, beating the GOP who wish to do harm to the human race, do you not agree?
Avalux
(35,015 posts)If it comes down to it I will vote for her, then promptly throw up. What I won't be able to do is get excited, phone bank, talk to others about how great she'll be. I can't fake how I feel.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)black and white, but kind of the same thing, right?
But you see it is that simple for me.
For me , knowing what I know about the other side and what a SC full of Scalia's would do to this country, just one example, is enough to make it very simply or very black and white.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)It did in 2008
Yup. Mark my words
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)I won't vote for someone I wouldn't willingly give my life for. I don't believe she understands what sending people to die for country really means, given her foreign policy record. If we go to war again under her, I don't believe it will be a war in defense of our Constitution. If we go to war again under her, I don't believe it will be for defending our allies. And I certainly don't believe that if we go to war under her again, it won't result in either the end of the world, or the forwarding of the tired tripe about American Exceptionalism.
I raised my hand and swore an oath to protect the United States, and the Constitution. I do not believe she stands for either, and as such, I can't vote for her.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)I really believe Bernie is going to be the candidate and you wont have this problem, I think he is about to blow away the establishment and the media the same as Trump, but Trump is garbage, etc.
But your attitude will be harmful if he isnt the nominee, that is just a fact.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)I'm unfortunately used to being harmful-- but my vote, at least from where I stand, means a lot more to me than the country; it means the livelihoods of my brothers and sisters in arms.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)On foreign policy identical.
On economic policy nearly identical...Goldman/Sachs CEO happy with either. Hillary says $12/hr ( if she means it), Jeb says no. Agree on trade agreements, agree on fracking.
On social issues, mixed. They differ on abortion. Since 2013 they differ on SSM. Agree on marijuana. Agree on private prisons. Agree on education. Overall more agreement than disagreement.
In short, although Jeb Bush is unquestionably more conservative than Hillary Clinton, there's not a vast gulf between them. She's just to the left. If Bush is a strong conservative, she's a moderate conservative. What they label themselves is just window-dressing...after all, the Democratic Republic of Korea is neither democratic or a republic, it's a communist dictatorship.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)The fear card has been played so many times it's becoming ragged and dog-eared. Sanders is every bit as good on woman's issues as Clinton. A successful coalition means supporting each other's issues. You can't demand support of abortion rights issue while also denying economic rights issue. Continuing to do so will cause the coalition to collapse. You lose abortion, we haven't lost economic rights because we don't have them anyway under your rules.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...if not better. If you want a coalition, both partners have to be satisfied. If you want support of your issues, you can't expect us to give up ours. That's not a coalition that will continue to survive.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)The two-party system has outlived its usefulness.
By Charles Wheelan Oct. 19, 2015, at 11:00 a.m.
The current standoff over House speaker has the potential to transform American politics. Here is what ought to happen: The moderate Democrats ought to join forces with the non-tea party Republicans to elect a speaker willing to work with this centrist majority. And then that new coalition should begin to govern, perhaps with a similar coalition in the Senate.
Is this naive? Of course it is. Any remotely hopeful view of American politics is naive these days. But it's not crazy. There are lots of reasons to believe that American politics are due for a major realignment.
America does not have two ideological blocs. It has at least four: the far left (Bernie Sanders); the center left (Hillary Clinton); the center right (traditional Republicans); and the far right (tea party). Most other industrialized democracies have at least this many parties.
The Republican House has become dysfunctional not because of the incompetence of its members (though there is plenty of that) but because the Republican Party has finally reached its breaking point. What do the religiously inspired social conservatives of the far right have in common with the small government libertarians trying to squeeze into the same tent? Not enough to govern apparently.
Hillary Clinton clearly has more in common with Jeb Bush than she does with Bernie Sanders. Similarly...
Matariki
(18,775 posts)Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)approach if you dont get your way.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)I personally will vote for whoever wins the nomination.
However, no politician should take that for granted. And I object to your OP that implies that votes should be taken for granted, because 'lesser of two evils' or 'd' after the name or whatever.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...aiming to eliminate a transparant democratic process in order to have a candidate appointed for us by the elites. Fuck that shit.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)If Hillary wins the primary, we lose the general. REAL simple.
Political wonks may do the nose holding lesser of two evil hootenanny but a lot won't.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Nothing to show for it but broken promises of incremental change.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)I appreciate the slow societal bones that have been thrown our way but they never seem to do anything that costs TPTB. I am to the point now where I am 99.9% sure it's Kabuki theatre - and then came Sanders.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)I'm taking your negative energy and placing it into a tiny bottle ... Fellow Bernie supporter ...