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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis Is How a Revolution Ends
This Is How a Revolution EndsThe Democratic insurgents campaign is losing steambut his supporters are not ready to give up.
MOLLY BALL 6:00 AM ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif.This is how a revolution ends: its idealism tested, its optimism drained, its hope turned to bitterness.
But then again, according to the official narrative, the primary is already over. Also according to the delegate count, which has Sanderss opponent, Hillary Clinton, just 78 short of the 2,383 it takes to win the nomination. Also according to the Democratic voters, some 3 million more of whom have supported Clinton than Sanders over the past four months of voting. And also according to Clinton, who told CNN the other day, I will be the nominee.
But in the world Sanderss supporters inhabit, this is all so much media manipulation. Do you trust the media? asked one of his introducers, the television host Cenk Uygur. No! yelled the crowd. Do you believe theyve treated Bernie Sanders fairly? Fuck the media! yelled someone standing near the press riser. (Sanders was also introduced by two actors, Dick Van Dyke and Rosario Dawson.)
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/bernie-sanders-clinton/484439/
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This Is How a Revolution Ends (Original Post)
workinclasszero
May 2016
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mmonk
(52,589 posts)1. Beginning.
This is just our first run.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)2. "official narrative"
firebrand80
(2,760 posts)3. The gif in your signature wins the day
I would add a comment on how revolutions usually end, but I'd probably get a hide
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. Thanks :)
Yeah don't risk it.
In a few weeks this will be a democratic party support board again.