2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Forgive me, but I gotta say it. Told ya so....Bernie's Got This [View all]lostnfound
(16,470 posts)It's so hard for some to understand how standing on principle operates.
And while the changes in the party platform mean nothing in comparison to the presidency, I really appreciate that Bernie stuck to his principles on that, too, and that Hillary Clinton went along with it. It's a line drawn in the sand. It will be stepped over, muddied and crossed throughout her presidency, sometimes without a choice and sometimes by choice, but it's a line and it's been drawn and it at least sets (on paper) some goalposts where they belong. Defense of those goalposts depends on the Bernie/Warren grassroots keeping active and building a movement that pushes congress in that direction.
On edit: to be clear, by "weathervanes" I am talking about Nicole Wallace and Chuck Todd etc... People who pay more attention to the emotional flow or appearances of politics than to issues or real values.