In all the "Bernie would have won/No he wouldn't" posts I've read...........

[Jakes Progress]

17. All that has been said a dozen times.

But that doesn't make it true or realistic.

Here's my "very few have explored" take. Bernie was shored up by the media. I know the popular meme is that they wouldn't cover him. But that is what shored him up. The MSM needed a big race to make the Democratic primary a ratings booster. If they had covered Bernie and his background and history they way they did every one of the republican candidates, Bernie would have been out before Ohio. There is a very thick binder of opo on Bernie that the media didn't use. Neither did Hillary. Had he won the primary, the republicans would have blanketed the country with it. Look. Bernie was never - ever - going to win the presidency.

Back a year ago, I liked Bernie. I heard his ideas, and they usually matched up with mine exactly (other than his pandering to white gun owners and dealers). I thought his ideas were what the country needed. More than more of the Lib-Lite that Obama pushed. But I read and studied. From my 50 years of this stuff, I was convinced that those ideas and Bernie would give us a republican president. There wasn't a single republican running that I thought would do anything but wreck America. So I opted for Hillary. Unlike a lot of the country and even some more gullible people here, I never bought the lies and the smears about Hillary. Like I said. I read and study.

So in the last year, I learned to really dislike the ego on Bernie and his willingness to play with right wing memes to smear Hillary. He got his little feelings hurt that he wasn't going to win (a concept that would have surprised the hell out of Bernie two years ago). I guess that even if you are a really decent guy, having thousands of people tell you that you are a messiah will warp your values. He should have stopped attacking Hillary three months early and got on the wagon. That way we wouldn't have had so many democrats wringing their hands about all of Hillary's "baggage". Had Bernie done this, Hillary would be about the be sworn in. We wouldn't be about to have three 30-year old Scalia's put on the court. Several million people would have to worry about losing their homes and lives because of deportation. Putin would be unhappy.

Sure there are many things that could have caused the couple of percentage points that would have put Hillary ahead of trump. But, make no mistake. Bernie playing for the good of the country would have been one. Had all the other crap that happened still happened, Bernie could have done something to keep trump from office. That's something he'll just have to live with.