2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Today proves Hillary has done a terrible job of wrapping this up! [View all]Garrett78
(10,721 posts)And it would be highly conceited of me to think I could.
It's just that a lot of folks don't seem to understand the mathematical and demographic realities.
People, particularly young folks, may become demoralized because they were expecting something that won't happen (and was never going to happen). I hope folks will understand that the Sanders campaign is a big picture campaign, and not about winning a particular election. It's about speaking out against corporatization and neoliberalism in hopes of starting the process of moving US politics in a new direction. It's not about individuals (or the Cult of Personality) but about systems. The likes of Clinton, Obama, Kerry, Gore et al. aren't causes but symptoms. I was saying the same thing many months ago, not because I'm pro-Clinton but because it's best to deal with what is and to grasp the big picture. Single elections don't upend systems, but they can start the process.