Moment of Truth: The Decision that Derailed Bernie’s Campaign

[JoePhilly]

45. He lost back in 2011, if not before. Here's why.

Shortly after Obama took office, a segment of the left became very angry. No matter what he did, it was not good enough. It should have been done faster, been bigger, or smaller, on and on and on.

By 2011, the perpetually disgruntled started to demand a primary opponent for Obama. It was never going to happen. But they demanded it. They didn't even have a viable candidate. But they were sure it was going to happen. Bernie even staggered into that nonsense. Of course that effort went nowhere.

The reality is that the angry left spent most of Obama's first 7 years complaining, and really doing nothing during that time to create an array of "acceptably progressive" alternatives to Clinton. As we got closer to 2015, they looked around and finally said, "Hey, we need a progressive alternative to Hillary", and so they started an effort to draft Warren. Which failed.

So Bernie took up their cause. And over the last year, he somehow became, for the angry left, the only person on the face of the earth who could save America.

Here on DU, anti-Hillary tirades have out numbered pro Bernie OPs by at least 5X. Why would anyone expect the media to spend time talking about Bernie when many of his loudest supporters spend almost no time talking about him, and the vast majority talking about (trashing) Clinton.

All of that time spent complaining about Obama, and now Hillary, has been a waste of time.

Bernie lost because the perpetually disgruntled have not gone out and created a set of viable alternatives. One guy (even Bernie) does not a movement make.

The "movement" was never about Bernie. The "movement" was primarily an "anti-Obama", and then "anti-Hillary" rant, with Bernie trying desperately to have his own (usually positive) message drowned out.