2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Polls, both recent and in the past several months, show that the majority of Americans prefer [View all]TDale313
(7,820 posts)Despite the evidence to the contrary, are they buying the "she's more electable" argument? Is it about protecting the status quo even if that means letting a Republican win? (Bad calculation if that Repug is Trump, btw) Is the hold of the Clinton machine over the party insiders so strong they wouldn't dare cross her no matter what? Is their dislike of outsider Sanders so strong that they wouldn't support him no matter what? A mixture of all of these?
One thing seems clear- the establishment is fucking pissed at him and us for crashing "their" party. We didn't get the memo that the 74 year old Democratic Socialist was *never* supposed to be a serious threat to their chosen one. They only let him run as a Dem to throw us on the left a bone. Boy did that backfire.