2016 Postmortem
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I believe Bernie has tapped into something that can be a rejuvenating energy for the Democratic Party, and for a restoration of the best side of America. I believe that is possible to achieve.
Competition between candidates is what politics is about. But, regardless of whether Democrats believe Bernie is the best candidate or not, the truly shriveled soul of the Democratic Party has been exposed.
This campaign has brought into stark focus something about the Democratic Party as an institution that has long been a problem. It has now broken out into the open -- unvarnished. And it is very discouraging to those of us who have hoped for an evolution back to a party of pro-active liberal ideals and goals and accomplishments.
While trying to hammer down Bernie, they have also hammered down the values they claim to represent.The message that the Democratic Party leadership has delivered in this primary is a final nail on the coffin of any illusion that it represents change, progress and liberalism.
Instead it has officially become a party that dismisses progress, insults it.....and actively seeks to stop efforts to press for liberal progressive change.
The message from Camp Clinton and its allies is unmistakable. "Don't expect us to work for for liberal progressive change. That will never happen. We don't do that. We only do little things. Tiny things that the GOP will allow us to do."
"We think single payer universal healthcare is a great idea. But we don't want to bother with that,,because it's too hard. And we don't want to work to try to convince the American people of its merits, or how it wold benefit them.... Instead, we'll just try to ask greedy insurance companies -- who make their money by denying care -- to act a little nicer."
"We believe training and education are important. But we don't really try to make college a right for everyone. That's too hard. Maybe we can lower the interest rates on student loan debt a little bit."
"Wall St. and Massive Corrupt Banks? Monopolistic Corporations? Hey we'll just ask them to be a little nicer too. Don't worry your pretty little heads about all those messy details. Let the adults make sure they behave themselves."
"Taxes are automatically are bad. We don't believe in taxes to support unicorns."