The Things Wrong With Dems

[TheFarseer]

67. You honestly can't see the advantage

of having the Democratic establishment behind you in the Democratic primary??!! It wouldn't be an advantage to have almost literally every elected Democrat endorsing and doing events for you? It wouldn't be an advantage to have the fund raising and party infrastructure behind you? Not to mention the media (which has an obvious bias towards those that spend tons of money on TV ads) saying how pragmatic and statesman like you are and how your opponent is impractical and can't get any of this done and on top of that might be a racist and a sexist. This is not often mentioned, but Clinton had a HUGE advantage in mail in votes, which is fair but is also a very establishment tactic. Then, right before the California primary-the most populous state, they declared Clinton the winner making it completely stupid to go out and cast a vote for the other guy and "being part of history" is you cast a vote for Clinton. If you really can't see the advantage of having the establishment behind you, then there's just no use talking to you. And I'm not even saying she was a bad candidate (although I think we could have done better) or she is a bad person or would have been a bad president. I'm just saying she obviously had an advantage in the primary.

By the way, you never addressed my point that it's crappy to start an open discussion by declaring that one opinion is stupid.