2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie gives Hillary some good advice. [View all]
Hekate
(100,133 posts)This is Trump's arena -- literally like PT Barnum. They have given him millions and millions and millions of dollars of free airtime. Even "Doctor" Oz played along, for gods' sake. Do you have any idea how valuable an hour of television is?
We cannot compete on that ground on Trump's terms.
In addition to the above, he destroyed all comers during the GOP primaries by doing two things personally to each of them: he persuaded them to get into the gutter with him, and he got into their heads. They were picked off one by one.
Hillary Clinton has some tremendous advantages. #1 She will not get into the gutter with him. #2 He cannot get into her head.
Hold that thought, as Rachel Maddow would say. #1 is very much to her credit, but it means she is not what Big Media wants. She's not wacky or entertaining or outrageous. So stop complaining about that part. It's up to each of us to spread the word. We have email. We have Facebook. We have Twitter. Social media is powerful.
#2 is one of Hillary's greatest strengths and always has been. She learned from what were surely her darkest hours over 20 years ago, when I know she had to have been riven with self-doubt. The bastards didn't grind her down then, and they won't now. But it would help very much if Hillary's supporters would be supportive.
The language floating around in this thread is laughable. "Sycophants"? "Hubris"? "Hillary groupies"? So supporting our candidate is that? No, it is not. In this moment the nation is in peril, as it was during the darkest days of the BushCheney administration. In my entire life I have never seen a candidate this dangerous get this close to the White House -- and the broadcast media is helping him.
After BushCheney, my country elected the best president of my lifetime twice, but all I read on this board for 8 years was what a betraying schmuck he was. Now we are faced with the biggest backlash in a century, and what do I read at DU? Reminders that once Hillary is elected, gods willing, I can expect the same drumbeat of cynicism and bitterness regarding her.
Folks, if we want Hillary to be elected at all, it starts with defying corporate media, and supporting her. If social media can work in popular uprisings overseas, it can work here at home.
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