2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Things I Blame For Hillary Clintons Loss, Ranked (Huff Po) [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)machine, are articles and blogs and selected letters to the editor that continue to blame Sanders for this loss, with shit as flimsy as "body language" to boot. There is a vested interest in taking down and keeping down anything that might question the party leadership's direction and in any way weaken its grasp on the levers of our "democracy."
If it can make sure people think of Sanders as a nasty old troll who destroyed our first female candidate out of spite and self-serving narcissism, rather than associate him to his message on money's destruction of our democratic system, then it can preserve its own decadence, and hopefully crush any future upstarts by simply reminding people about that evil Bernie and his works.
I love how people who have read articles like this over and over come to say YES! FINALLY! this one speaks to me, as if they haven't heard these exact same points, in the exact same way like 80 times by now.