2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There's no good reason to anathematize Bernie and his supporters. [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,823 posts)The point is, Ken, that the JPR types are exactly who I have been referring to throughout this thread. I thought Id made that abundantly clear.
Is this a time for the party to be introspective, and to assess where things went wrong? I dont think anyone would argue that.
The problem on DU is not honest criticism and debate. The problem is the Bernie would have won this in a landslide people, who will never let go of the idea that Hillary was THE problem, that the DNC is THE problem, that everyone and everyone who didnt support Bernie as the nominee is responsible for THE downfall of the Democratic Party.
Despite the three-decade onslaught on HRC, she won the majority of votes a fact which some here simply choose to ignore. In other words, she must have been doing SOMETHING right in order to garner those votes and were it not for the EC (which I see a lot of people suddenly defending as a fair and balanced way to elect a POTUS), shed be on her way to the White House.
After seeing a bigoted racist elected to the highest position in the land, I am in NO fuckin mood to hear about how HRC and the Dems got it all wrong. The truth is that we ran on a platform of increasing the minimum wage, making healthcare and college affordable, and keeping the safety nets that feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and care for the sick intact.
Apparently, those facts were rejected by a populace that is dumb enough to believe that Donald Trump (the great outsourcer of American jobs) will be looking out for their best interests, that Donald Trump (pussy-grabber extraordinaire) was chosen by God to lead the nation, that Donald Trump (deadbeat who doesnt pay hard-working Americans for their work) is on the side of the little guy.
You can fight all kinds of things but you cant fight stupid. And I dont want to hear how stupid the Dems are for not being more like Republicans.
As for the Bernie-or-Busters, they shouldnt be welcome here but Skinner has decided they should be. Fuck that. I aint playin.