I sure hope the BoBs and Greens and the rest of the alt-left are happy!

[Saviolo]

75. I normally stay out of these threads, but holy shit

I just get so frustrated seeing them all the time.

Can we please stop blaming "the left" for this election loss? Just stop. Stop stop stop.

A bigger proportion of "BernieBros" voted for Hillary than "PUMAs" voted for Obama, so please stop it with the BoB crowd killing us. Also, Bernie campaigned for Hillary in a big way, and also attacked Trump in a big way. You think Jill Stein and Cornel West are happy to have a racist misogynist in the White House? You think ANYone on the left is happy about that? There was a tiny minority of so-called progressives who, after the primary, decided they wanted to go from one anti-establishment candidate to the other, despite their political positions on EVERYTHING being just about polar opposites. Do you really think that they were seriously politically plugged in? Or truly progressive? No, they thought it was cool to stir up shit, and that's the entire reason they decided to get interested in politics. They weren't lefties, they were trolls. Some people just want to watch the world burn.

If you want to lay blame on someone, put it where it belongs. The media absolutely killed the left on this election cycle. Millions of free dollars of advertising for Trump for MONTHS AND MONTHS! News cycles, phone calls, interviews, covering his empty podium while both Clinton and Sanders were ALREADY TALKING! The media barely looked at the Democrats except when there was still a race in the primaries. So long as Hillary and Bernie were still duking it out on the left, there would be some talk about it on the news. After the winner was clear and the left had a candidate, the media could say, "Wow, that's boring now. Check out this crazy thing Trump just said!!!!!"

Unless of course there was a scandal. So, y'know, emails, emails, emails, emails, emails, Benghazi just for variety, emails. There was next to no policy discussion at any time. All we got was Clinton Scandal!! vs. Wow, This Trump Fella's Pretty Wacky, Eh? All it did was fan the flames of those crazy right-wingers. The Tea Partiers, the White Nationalists, the White Supremacists, the racists, the deplorables, the Neo-Nazis, all under the soft marketing term of "Alt-Right." And the media gave fawning reports on them too!! Actual literal Neo-Nazis!

And here's the big kicker about how the media absolutely failed us, beat us up, and betrayed us: It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. I don't think it was, in most cases. I think the news outlets were trying to grab eyeballs to make as much money on ad revenue as possible, and damn the consequences. I don't think that all of the CEOs of the networks got together smoking cigars and chugging champagne to plan this, I think they just looked to see which way people were looking. Most of the public wanted to hear more about that wacky Trump fellow, so that's what the media gave them. They're in their death throes, revenue is tanking and newspapers are dying. They needed something, anything to remain relevant, so they aimed the camera at the baboon in an ill-fitting suit who kept spouting his loony catch phrases. There was no forethought. It was pure negligent ignorance in the pursuit of cash money that led the news outlets to do this.

Anyway, I've rambled on enough. Please, start pointing your scorn, attention, anger, and action to where it really needs to go. If the left devours itself, and tears itself into little tiny pieces, you're not going to see a Democratic president for a long time.