BFD!!!

[bekkilyn]

54. Nobody knows the truth

Bernie may or may not have won, we just don't know. Bernie had a great message and I believe he would have been a great President, but Trump and the Republicans would have started hitting hard on the Socialism thing as well as the fact that he's Jewish, considering how much of Trump's campaign was based on hatred and discrimination. I'm also thinking more and more that no matter who the Democratic candidate was, the entire election would have been rigged against them based on things I've been seeing coming out of the states doing the recounts. It smells fishier and fishier.

I'm also not convinced that the majority of the Democratic party are establishment centrists supporting big money interests and business as usual. At least I hope not. Not only were a large number of Democrats excited by Bernie's message because it was *not* the above business as usual, they were later thrilled with the Democratic platform that Bernie and Hillary devised together...the most progressive platform the Democrats ever had in history from what people keep saying. I don't believe it would have happened though without a competitive primary. Hillary turned into a *much* stronger candidate than she would have been thanks to having competition (and it was kind compared to Trump...maybe too kind), and I have a lot more respect for her now than I did before the primaries even though I was always going to vote for the Democratic candidate. I went from the idea of holding my nose for her to actually believing she would be a good President.

I have been in depression for weeks knowing that the dark times are approaching. We *need* every ally we can get to fight this and we don't have time to keep bickering over stupid stuff. Who cares whether people think Bernie or Hillary would have done better? The fact is that *neither* of them won and we need to move forward as a united progressive force and quit pointing fingers and unproductively blaming each other (while forgetting our *real* enemy is out there) or the Democratic party and every other progressive is done for. Finis.

Build bridges instead of walls.