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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLincoln quote should give us all hope
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute."
Abraham Lincoln
He's talking about the Bernie revolution . . when you have the public behind you, you can't fail . . if you don't have the public behind you, you can't succeed.
Now, that's America!
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Lincoln quote should give us all hope (Original Post)
pdsimdars
Feb 2016
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matt819
(10,749 posts)1. He could also be talking about trump (nt)
NNadir
(37,535 posts)2. I very much doubt that President Lincoln was talking about the, um, "Bernie Revolution."
You may be a little too enthusiastic.
I may have this wrong, but Bernie Sanders just lost two events, the South Carolina Primary and the Nevada caucus.
It's somewhat dubious to contend therefore that "the public is behind him."
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)3. big picture
If you look at Bernie's numbers they keep rising whereas Hillary is slowly shrinking. And over the past so many years, the people are starting to stand up to the establishment because the establishment is not doing the will of the people. It WILL be turned around. . . maybe not with Bernie but it is coming.
I hope it comes now, as the BLM people point out, we're tired of waiting.
