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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Throws Shade at Bernie: 'Fundamentally Wrong' About Democratic Party [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We need help understanding what we witnessed from experts. It's always what it is, not what we want it to be. Fortunately, books are already being written, and more will be as more truths about what happened came out.
From the autumn 2016 through election day in 2016, Bernie was completely up front about his belief that the Democratic Party needed to be completely remade in his vision during this election. Attack and get rid of the party leadership with presumed hope to slot in his choices of completely inexperienced Bernie followers. Do the same to as many of our congressmen and senators as possible, with hope to replace any who could be ousted with mostly completely unknown and underfunded Bernie followers.
This was as the Democratic Party faced the most vital and existential election in our lifetimes -- against the Republican Party.
To put it mildly, that struck me as something like watching a hurricane approach and deciding that's just the right time to take the existing roof off the house in preparation for a new one. You'd only do that if you wanted the house destroyed.
There ARE reasons why a politician might want the Democratic house destroyed.
So now I am particularly interested in historians', and political psychologists', enlargement on Hillary's flat statement, He didnt get into the race to make sure a Democrat won the White House, he got in to disrupt the Democratic Party. That seems like an of-course to me. I spent a year watching as he claimed to be boarding up windows against the Republican storm even as he worked at tearing our roof off -- and reading about political personality types in an attempt to make sense of it.
We need to know a lot more about this history, to understand it, the how, what, where, when, and especially the why. So we can learn from the past. Hope to find some good answers in Hillary's book, only one of many I will be reading.