Post mortem thread. Why did we lose?

[woo me with science]

157. More importantly, polls show consistently that on actual ISSUES,

voters across party lines are well to the left of the agenda we've been fed under corporatism. By strong margins, voters detest austerity, want to rein in the warmongering, distrust the security state, want to hold banks accountable...

Voters are unhappy with the direction the country is going, by 76 percent, I believe. That's across party lines, too.

And those issues on which they stand clearly to the left of corporate Democrats are precisely the issues about which corporate Democrats lie their way through campaign seasons in order to get votes: because they KNOW the electorate is more liberal than they are.

Application of broad, generic labels such as "liberal" and "conservative" are meaningless in a country where a corporate-purchased media machine consistently distorts the meaning of those words. Hell, FOX New viewers think Obama is a *socialist,* for gawd's sake.

Hell, look at corporatists right here at DU who bleat defense of "Kill Lists" and indefinite detention and corporate school policies and drilling and fracking and mass surveillance and austerity....and then turn around and describe themselves as "liberals"!

What a joke. It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.