What I have learned about the election on DU [View all]

[BainsBane]

That the millions of people upset about the results of the GE don't matter. Their grief pales in the comparison to the far more important outrage of Bernie supporters who continue to be angry about the primary, months after the fact. If any Clinton voter articulates frustration or pain, they got what they deserved. If only they had voted for Bernie and compelled others to vote for Bernie, Trump would not be the president elect.

Women who hoped to see someone like themselves rise to the highest office in the land and take the election results as emblematic of the double standards they face in their own lives, in which no amount of hard word and competence will ever make them equal to the least qualified man, simply don't matter. Sexism had nothing to do with the election. The problem was that the Democrats ran a "corporate whore" (despite the fact no one can point how how her policies were compromised or her practices departed from previous presidents of the party as whole), a congenital liar (fact checkers showing her to be the most honest candidate in either party during the entire election are rigged.) What matters is some just "feel" she is dishonest because she reminds them of a female boss, ex-wife or mother. We live in a post-fact world where feelings are all that matter.

The people terrified due to the rise of hate crimes unleashed by a presidential candidate who elevated White Supremacy to the Oval Office are overreacting. Racism had nothing to do with the election. It's all in their heads. Those swastikas are really denunciations of TPP and corporate Democrats. When men pull the hijabs off women and beat them, while hurling Muslims slurs, that has nothing to do with racism. It's instead a denunciation of Democrat economic policies. The rise in hate crimes has absolutely nothing to do with the GE because Trump didn't run as a racist and his supporters didn't vote out of racism. Comments to Jews about how they should be burned in ovens aren't really antisemitic; they are rather commentary on the international banking cabal.

If our candidate can't win despite progressives eagerly repeating talking points fed to them by the GOP, she had no business running in the first place. She is weak, and the the nomination should be open and hard hitting, as long as that hitting goes one entirely way. Any criticism of a candidate favored by a certain minority is unacceptable. So much so that he isn't responsible for his own loss by 3.8 million votes. The DNC and the media rigged the election and kept Bernie from assuming his birthright. Hillary Clinton was also responsible since she shouldn't have run for the nomination in the first place and instead stood back and allowed Bernie to claim it uncontested. Hard hitting primaries only hold for certain candidates but not the Chosen One.

Although Clinton won the popular vote by 2.5 million out of 125 million votes, her message was bad, and she was hopelessly flawed. Bernie lost the primary by 3.8 million out of 27.8 million votes, there was nothing wrong with his message and he is perfection itself. He only lost because the DNC "rigged" the primary and the Media instituted a blackout in which they only allowed him on three Sunday news shows each week. The fact the majority of Democrats, including the base of women and people of color, didn't support him was all due to DNC manipulation and the fact they are the establishment, stockholm syndrome sufferers, and too stupid to know they were manipulated to vote against the One True President. Elderly and disabled people participated in caucuses by absentee ballot, and they should be kept from doing so because they don't know how to vote right. Then there is the fact that those Democrats votes simply matter less than the votes of third party and GOP white male voters. Democratic voters simply matter less.

The loss of the GE doesn't matter. The rise of fascism doesn't matter. All that matters is Bernie was denied his right to be the Democratic nominee by the PTB and their manipulation of the poorest and most marginalized voters in the country. If only the primary had been longer, even more expensive, and the media had done it's job by running Bernie's stump speech 24/7, he would have won. That his support dropped off rather than increased by the end of the primary is not evidence that additional exposure did not help his electoral chances.

What I have learned is that some candidates deserved to be trashed during the primary, during the GE, and even after they have left political life, whereas another candidate should under no circumstances be criticized in anyway. The fact is some people are superior to others, and if you are among the subaltern who voted for Clinton in the primary and GE, you are what is wrong with America. That you even imagine your vote or your voice should matter is emblematic of the power of the establishment. What matters is not policy or competence, but Bernie. Anyone associated with Bernie, who posters here assume would have voted for Bernie (because they voted GOP in the GE) are superior to the people who reliably vote Democrat, who turn up to staff phone banks and spend countless hours every election going door to door for Democratic candidates. Those of us committed to the party and its voters are the problem.

The take away from the election: All people are not created equal. Bernie and his supporters are and always will be superior, and they deserve to control the votes of the entire Democratic voting public who, is too inferior to know how to vote properly in the first place.