2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Seems to me that most of you don't get it [View all]Gregorian
(23,867 posts)And that's why losing, as someone above calls it, isn't even part of the dialog. This isn't about getting a president in office as much as turning the planet around.
Bernie is winning. Maybe not by the standards of the establishment. But by the measure of building a movement, we have already done it. We're already creating a new media. We've already had Bernie Sanders on TYT, and we've already had Grayson and Jolly debate.
But what's really happening goes far beyond this charade of an election. We not only plan to have a million supporters at the convention, but it's what's after the election that is on the schedule. We're putting down ticked Dems in office. We just beat Tweety's wife.
You see, this election is trivial. In comparison to methane bubbling up out of rivers, and 400ppm CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and 1.5C temp. rise already, this election is unimportant.
What you are about to see are millions of young people whose future is not just in peril, but literally dying. And they aren't going to stand by. They aren't going to ask for help. They are going to demand action. And they are going to take action.
That's what's going here.
I've never been more optimistic in my life! I've lived what these young people are now going through, for fifty years. I'm with them.