Bernie is trying to break a bad cycle.....That's why he has not jumped in with an endorsement

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51. Yes he did, and your inability to acknowledge that is why he failed

Ultimately it comes down to who gets more votes. 'A for effort' is very nice and so on, but elections are a competition in which there are winners and losers. Rather than deal with the reality of this you are now sitting about posting thread after thread in which you attempt to redefine the notions of winning and losing to avoid dealing with the facts in front of you.

I used to do this when I was younger too, but I grew out of it. It's a waste of mental energy that could have been more usefully applied to other tasks. People like me were telling people like you for months on end that we'd like to support Bernie because we agreed with most of his agenda but that his policies were too short on detail and that oversimplification of complex political issues were going to cost him votes.

But instead of working up a better more detailed policy platform that people could get behind, it was easier to complain about rigged votes and other conspiracy theories and chasing shiny objects like trying to make a thing out of her speech transcripts. If the campaign couldn't be bothered to come up with more detailed policy proposals during the election cycle, why was I supposed to feel confident that they would magically manifest if Bernie were elected President? I don't want to vote for someone who doesn't have a detailed plan of action, it's that simple.

Every time I would ask 'how is Bernie going to achieve this? How does he hope to implement this policy, exactly?' I was told that he'd put some experts in charge. That's not a plan Armstead, it's a cop-out. Why would I want to vote for someone who seems to understand the federal government less well than I do?