Bernie Folks: What Happened to Our Shared Revolution? [View all]

[kentuck]

Last edited Sat Jun 11, 2016, 12:07 PM - Edit history (1)

http://lnr.politicususa.com/bernie-folks-happened-shared-revolution-1069/

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Why are we not directing our passion towards educating those who think Donald Trump is a hero? And seriously, how crazy are the people, who after rational consideration, would rather vote for racist, xenophobic, sexist Trump simply because Bernie lost? How does this do anything other than throw our revolution under Trump’s ego bus? It is a selfish act.

Yes, Bernie lost. Hillary won, fair and square. She won because 3.5 million more people voted for her. She won more pledged delegates, etc. – she won by any objective metric. #BernieOrBust people: Ask yourselves – what’s more likely: that multiple conspiracy theories about voter fraud, voter suppression, corporate media control of the narrative, Wall Street dark money, etc., combined in a perfect storm to deny Bernie the nomination? Or, ask yourself – please — doesn’t maybe Occam’s Razor apply? The simplest explanation is frequently the best. This is a perfect example: more people voted for Hillary, even at the end. She defeated Bernie by over 30 points in New Jersey and by 13 points in California.

The number of people who turn out for a rally does not necessarily correspond to voter turnout. Trump thinks his rallies mean the whole country is ready to spread its political legs for him, yet both Bernie and Hillary got more votes than Trump in their respective primaries. But reality is not simply what you see around you, nor what Facebook chooses to show you in your news feed. (In fact, unless you choose otherwise, Facebook only shows you an algorithm-curated selection consisting solely of people who agree with you. This is not reality.)

Part of our revolution was about believing in facts, and science – not “truthiness,” as Stephen Colbert once said. The revolution includes rejecting the Republican insistence on betraying both facts and science for political gain, all at the expense of the average American. If you truly believe in a fact-based reality, you owe it to yourself to challenge the wave of political propaganda out there that demands you accept at face value charges that Hillary Clinton is a monstrous she-devil, ready to make you the next course at the feast of Wall Street.

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(on edit) I do not necessarily agree with most of these comments but I do agree that Hillary is not a "monstrous she-devil" and those that propagate that sort of propaganda only add fertilizer to the already deluded Trump supporters.