2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There's no good reason to anathematize Bernie and his supporters. [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)What is the best political strategy in influencing a party's outcomes.
It does not involve barging in and criticizing everyone and everything who disagrees with your positions as "corrupt" and being "part of the problem"
That is not how you win friends and influence people - so to speak.
I don't understand your point about his behavior during the primary and whether I believe in principles of democracy - of course I believe in principles of democracy, of course I can critique a primary contender's campaign, those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
And define "change". What does change mean to you? It means different things to different people.
As a voter I am not sold on "change" until I get specifics- change only really occurs when people will it to be so.
And democrats spoke - they wanted Hillary.