2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Give this some thought if you're concerned about Trump vs Clinton. [View all]Bernie people keep forgetting that Hillary has strong numbers with women, African Americans, Latinos and others. The Bernie people seem to ignore those groups when trying to convince everybody that Bernie has momentum. Doing so is a disservice to Bernie and what he's stood for all these years.
Bernie supporters also forget that this is the primary and, yes Bernie has a lot of support, which is great, but come the GE, everybody who votes will have to make new choices depending on who's on the ballot. They keep talking about subverting democracy and so on, which is hogwash. This is party politics, nobody's actually cast an official ballot, the democratic process in the United States of America hasn't happened yet. They put the cart before the horse.
I'm tired of Bernie supporters absolutism, this notion that all independents and millennials support Bernie now and will only support Bernie in the GE. That is a childish projection on reasonable adults which says more about the poster than it does about reality.
Come voting day every liberal and progressive in the booth is going to look at their choices on the ballot and make a decision. They will have to live with whatever that decision is. If they choose to sit out, vote 3rd party, write in, or flip to Trump just to spite Hillary, then everything that happens in a Trump Presidency is on their heads.
I like to think that die-hard Bernie supporters are smarter than that. We'll find out on November 8th.