Bernie was mean to Hillary and Hillary was mean to Bernie

[Chasstev365]

So, let waste some more energy on something that ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING!

[Angry Dragon]

1. I am going to trash Bernie threads....starting with this one

[Chasstev365]

4. Why is this a "Bernie" thread?

[Angry Dragon]

5. rehashing the primary

[Chasstev365]

7. I am point out how stupid some of these DU posts are by a determined few.

It's getting so old! People need to grow up!

[elleng]

2. and they were both mean to Governor O'Malley.

[NurseJackie]

9. LOL!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. And Obama was mean to Hillary. I was a Hillary supporter so I remember.

[elleng]

20. Oh HA, I hassin bin sober SINCE THEN!

[applegrove]

3. Don't you think we should hash it all out before the next election? In case

Bernie runs against some establishment type again. So we do not knee jerk but come at the race from an understanding of the realities of how we lost?

[murielm99]

12. Some establishment type?

What are you talking about? Bernie Sanders is part of the establishment. And just who is this big, bad establishment? The Democratic Party? Planned Parenthood?

[applegrove]

14. I meant if the same problems come up it would be nice if we had dealt with them.

That way we would be less sore. And not as easily manipulated by right wing trolls claiming to be on one side or the other.

[murielm99]

15. The whole issue of trolls and bots

is a new one. We will have to learn to use social media wisely and regulate it before it ruins our democracy.

[applegrove]

16. I agree. It would be nice if there was a verifiable ID online. I wish facebook

would start an ID app. One Democratic underground could then use. So there were not trolls and bots.

[mythology]

17. Except there is little agreement of why we lost

Some people want to blame Sanders, some people want to blame unsupported claims of vote fraud, some want to blame every Trump supporter being racist/sexist, some want to blame Clinton for not being Sanders, etc. Many people on the Clinton/Sanders divide are too caught up in blaming either Sanders or Clinton to actually look at the situation objectively.

[applegrove]

18. Discussion of the 20 reasons why we lost will help. There are many reasons

why.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Ronald Reagan fucking hated GHWB, and vice versa. One pair joined forces leading to 3 GOP terms.

[QC]

8. Why is the world so cruel? Why?

[beam me up scottie]

10. ...

[phleshdef]

11. It's like people have never seen an election play out before?

[murielm99]

13. I think that is true of many of the Bernie supporters.

They are new to politics and do not understand how things work. They have little understanding of the electoral process, and little understanding of how government works and how governing is accomplished.

I see a great deal of this at some of the meetings of the newer grassroots organizations. They need to educate themselves.