2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump, but the real question is [View all]still_one
(96,541 posts)said that California was throwing provisional ballots out was pure garbage. California counts ALL its votes, including provisional ones.
11 days before the election Comey released a letter to the republicans in Congress, which MSNBC reported as breaking news that "the email investigation had been reopened". THAT WAS A LIE. MSNBC had every right wing politician parade across the screen propagating that lie. Within an hour all the other media outlets were repeating that LIE.
A few days later bret baier from fox news said that "according to his sources in the FBI that an imminent indictment was about to happen to the Clinton Foundation". THAT WAS LIE, and the other news outlets were only to willing to repeat that LIE. two days later bret baier came out and said that that story was a mistake. However, that did not stop fox, or others from continuing to repeat the LIE.
In Michigan Hillary lost by .3%. Jill Stein received 1.1% of the vote. Similar results in Wisconsin and the other swing states, and that Russ Feingold lost by several percentage points. Hillary was within 1%.
Of course the wonderful self-identified progressives made sure that their self fulfilled prophecy that they would never vote for Hillary, and Hillary would lose would become a reality. They are still so proud of what they did and have no regrets. Well F**K THEM"
Chomsky said it best:
"Noam Chomsky: Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a bad mistake"
Chomsky also attacked the arguments made by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who argued that Trumps election would at least shake up the system and provide a real rallying point for the left.
[Zizek makes a] terrible point, Chomsky told Hasan. It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in the early 30s
hell shake up the system in bad ways.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/