2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumhootinholler
(26,449 posts)I look forward to your tears.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You're not entitled to any smugness OR any presumption of superiority.
This campaign would be meaningless if Bernie hadn't run.
It would be nothing but lesser-evil.
For some reason, I think you'd have preferred that.
ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)...but then BSers have no sense of boundaries, so chalk this up to just another example.
George II
(67,782 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)elleng
(130,956 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)OT, at my 2nd part of the caucus in WA state on Sunday, a Hillary Supporter and I talked about how good O'Malley was. I thought of you...funny enough.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)be. They never fail.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Which you just proved.
awake
(3,226 posts)Ya the Party of FDR will be over if Hillary has her way.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Better not go there.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)And it's not a sporting contest.
There WILL be losers though, and they will be the very same people that suffer under the system of growing inequality.
oasis
(49,388 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)Has been since Super Tuesday!
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brer cat
(24,572 posts)to register on Democratic Underground to tell us you don't support democratic candidates. You might want to take a few minutes to read the TOS before you announce that you are not going to vote for the duly elected democratic candidate.
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pinebox
(5,761 posts)and many have said over and over they will never vote for her.
Welcome to reality.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)it will more likely be Jill Stein who will thank a lot of people for their votes.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)that one of those third parties ALSO has a female candidate.
They also don't understand that we're warning them, not throwing temper tantrums. We're telling them NOW that we won't vote for her. We're telling them why. We're not voting for the Republicans, either, because, quite frankly, if we wanted what the Republicans were offering, we'd have no trouble voting for Clinton.
If they don't take our advice, fine, but we won't be to blame when she loses because our votes went to Jill Stein.
enid602
(8,620 posts)Yet anotherb winner.
artislife
(9,497 posts)JudyM
(29,250 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Hillary's not the nominee yet. She's fair game.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)term.
A leap backward for democratic process, for the environment, for social progress in the US, on and on... It will all be a financial calculation about what favors she owes (which will be bigger than ever) and who she deigns to favor, while Bill wanders the halls looking to expand his, er, influence.
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Stile
(32 posts)hillaryclintonsupporters.com
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Bob Hope & Shirley Ross Sing "Thanks For The Memory" (1938)
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)No shame.
Surya Gayatri
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Second. This morning when I walked out, there was Senator Bernie Sanders who came to the congress on Centessimus Annus. He knew that I was leaving at that time and he had the courteousness to greet me. I greeted him and his wife, and another couple with him that was staying in Santa Marta, because all of the members of the congress, except the heads of state who I believe were staying in their embassies, were staying at the Santa Martha residence. I gave a greeting and nothing more. A greeting is an educated thing to do and does not mean to be mixed up with politics. If someone thinks that to give a greeting means to get mixed up in politics, I think he needs a psychiatrist.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)salinsky
(1,065 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Yeah, Princess Weathervane may well end up the nominee...this has been rigged for her from the get-go. But she has no chance in November. None. If that's what it takes to get the party to at long last abandon its bullshit, Third Way, rightward drift, so be it.
potone
(1,701 posts)Just in case some of us were starting to think that DU is getting too vitriolic, and that we should all back off from attacking one another and each person's preferred candidate, along you come to remind us, once again, that you don't care about the wishes of the rest of the country and don't want us to have a chance to vote for our preferred candidate. I really would like to know how you consider that to be democratic. If Hillary is the winner so be it, but at least have the decency to support the right of all of us to have our say in the process up to the convention. Is that really too much to ask of people who claim to be Democrats?
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)Math celebration time! Great idea, Lucinda!
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)casperthegm
(643 posts)Might want to look him up. We've only begun to fight. Win or lose, supporters of Bernie Sanders are not going away. Either the Democratic party will listen to us and stop supporting fracking, stop with regime change policies, oppose terrible trade agreements like NAFTA and TPP, support Wall Street regulation, and end Citizens United...or we will form a new party that represents what the Democratic should be.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)kstewart33
(6,551 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)shenanigans, voter roll purges, fix is in, not enough debates....
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Thanks!
frylock
(34,825 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)She won't have the necessary number of delegates either...
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)I didn't pay much attention to them, either. Mewling authoritarians gonna' mewl.
basselope
(2,565 posts)With the GOP taking all branches in 2017, the democratic party will have to reform itself.