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In reply to the discussion: Enough with the scolding please. [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I watched the general closely and became concerned about Bernie's lack of support in mid-September. He did little. Even if he got the fawners to show up to big rallies to explains why voting third party in a close election is stupid, that would have been helpful. But it did not happen.
I knew someone would bring up the wet comfort blanket of the percentage of Bernie 2016 voters versus Hillary 2008 voters. And that statistic is meaningless in context of the two elections. Republicans were coming off Bush and were in chaos in 2008, Obama also had the new message. And Obama still did not win by the margin that he should have, even as he pounded McCain. Hillary provided the safe, comfortable margin for Obama. 2016 was a pure margin race, Trump had the new message be that hate or whatever. Hillary could have used margin gained from Bernie cooling his people off by campaigning for and with Hillary and even holding her hand on many stages if that worked. But Bernie did the absolute minimum and did little to call the hardcore of his people off, saying stuff that he could not think for them - he could not think for them, but he could have done a lot by actively calling out the worse of them. He did little. Now we have his My Revolution talking about voting for republicans. What republican in the last 17 years has been sane?
Sorry, I witness the election and even saw liberal commetators asking where was Bernie. I won't forget.