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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders lambasts 'absolute failure' of Democratic party's strategy [View all]Nevernose
(13,081 posts)However, none of that would have been possible had Democrats been winning elections.
The Russians are a major problem and I hope everyone complicit in 2016 goes to prison for treason, but loss on the current scale involves Democratic failure on every level -- local, state, and federal -- for the last decade.
I'm not saying theres no good reasons to be critical of Sanders, but it doesn't mean that he's also not right. Also, I think our perspective of him is largely filtered for us through corporate media. I've been to a speech in which Sanders talked about economic and social justice for a solid 45 minutes, and had one line about "the establishment." The headline in my local paper the next day? "Sanders Slams Dems."
You know how they spent 30 years slandering Clinton? They did/do the same thing to Sanders. Anything to keep us from uniting, anything to keep in place a power structure designed by and for the benefit of wealthy, white, straight, Christian males.
We're playing their game and feeding their narrative.