2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm curious: What is your end game with Bernie? [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Do you think this is a contest for some minor Internet blip known as DU? I think of it as DemocraticUNDERGROUND, by the way. No. That's nothing.
The thing that was Occupy, the thing that is Fight for $15 and Black Lives Matter and the immigration reform movement and the enormous climate change marches since 2014, the thing that brought forth the Sanders campaign and will soon enough rediscover anti-war, it's not going away and it's growing. The left is back and America is going left. Sanders may indeed "lose" this campaign, but I hope he's not going away either. There's plenty of money for him to raise for the cause, beyond this matter of the quadrennial clown show of presidential electoral politics. Remember among whom Sanders gets the huge majorities? They're under 45, they're under 30.
The people, enough of them, united for social and economic justice, money out of politics, ending corporate rule, achieving democracy and peace. Deal with it. This is the future.