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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders voters helped Trump become President [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Right after the start of the clip, which is after the election, Chris Hayes shows a clip of her statements BEFORE the election. She still thinks her statements were valid, which goes something like this:
She doesn't know what she's going to do. She knows Bernie wants people to vote for Clinton, but that's because he has no ego. But some people just can't bring themselves to vote for Clinton. She thinks that a vote for Trump could bring the revolution, so to speak, that she feels is necessary. Like Lenin. If you were running for maintaining the status quo, when clearly everyone was calling for change, you're going to lose.
She self-describes as an activist. Activists don't always take pragmatic positions. Activists agitate. That's what they do. Until they get whatever it is they want.
This is the same thing that Ralph Nader and his supporters did in the 2000 election. It ended Nader's political career, to the extent he had one. It was all ego, IMO, and not concern for the country. Nader's position was that both parties, both candidates, were equally bad. That was a very close election. We know what happened, unfortunately.