Dkos: No, Senator Sanders; YOU are out of touch (opinion piece)

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418. WTF. You are blaming African Americans for trump's win. How about those self-identified

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progressives who refused to vote for Hillary by not voting, voting third party, or voting write in.

Perhaps you were not aware of how some Sanders supporters reacted toward John Lewis, and James Clayburn, when they endorsed Hillary. Or the garbage they threw at Congressional black caucus for endorsing Hillary, some bordering on racism.

In fact, groups or influential people who endorsed Hillary were called every name in the book, by these so-called self-identified progressives.

In Michigan, Hillary lost by .3%. Jill Stein received 1.1% of the vote. Similar results in Wisconsin, and other key swing states.

Also the dirty little secret that no one wants to talk about is that in 2013 the Supreme Court struck down a key provision in the voting rights act. That embolden 14 states, including those that were not part of the voting rights act to legislate more restrictive voting requirements, mostly targeted at African Americans.

Included within those 14 states were Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina.

North Carolina also tried to wipe thousands of voters off the roster before the election. The NAACP argued that discriminatory practices were involved, and the court told them to reinstate those voters. Unfortunately, it was very late in the process, and the word didn't get out in time for many that their voting rights had been reinstated.

Another thing that seems to get ignored a lot is that every Democrat running for Senate in a swing state lost the the establishment, incumbent, republican.

Not surprisingly, most of those self-identified progressives who refused to vote for Hillary, had no regrets, and expressed that they would do the same thing again.

Of course you also conveniently forgot about 14 days before the election, Comey sent a letter to the republicans in Congress. MSNBC was the first network to report it as "breaking news that the email investigation had been reopened". THAT WAS A LIE. MSNBC then proceeded to parade every right wing politician across their screen to propagate that LIE. After an hour, all the other networks grabbed it, made sure the LIE received its greatest coverage. Yeah, nothing to see there.

A few days later after the FBI involvement, and the media's distortion, Bret Baier from fox news reported, "According to his sources in the FBI an indictment was pending against the Clinton Foundate". That was another LIE, and the media outlets, and fake news outlets made sure it spread like wild fire. 48 hours later Bret Baier came out and said he was mistaken, an apologized, but that didn't stop fox news, the trump campaign, or the fake news outlets of continuing that LIE.

Nope, nothing to see there either.

I have no doubt you voted for Hillary, and encouraged your friends to do so also, right?