2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wow - the concern trolls were right. [View all]BainsBane
(53,029 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 16, 2016, 04:47 AM - Edit history (1)
I think you're confusing Hillary with the candidate who funneled his ads through Old Towne media and collected tens of millions in ad placement fees.
I think what You mean we should have voted how you told us to, because my vote and the rest of the Democrats are inferior to yours.
As for the rest of your bullshit, Eichenwald dispelled it. http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044
Yeah, it sucks Bernie faced a challenger and we didn't just hand him the nomination as was his birthright. Better yet, repeal the 19th amendment like the Trump supporters want so you can have the America you've always dreamed of.
Get out the vote campaigns aren't "gold plated." It's fucking grassroots organization. That you treat citizen volunteer participation in politics with such contempt says everything about your worldview. Better a candidate who doesn't lower himself to work on GOTV for his own campaign or even register voters. Better someone who raises $200 million and spends the great majority of it on corporate media. Now that's democracy. No lowly volunteer organizing.
If you didn't want your friends to lose their medical coverage, maybe you shouldn't have worked so hard to smear the Democratic nominee? Maybe you should have actually volunteered to turn out voters? Of course popular participation is "gold plated." While treating politicians as infallible monarchs isn't. What utter cant. But hey, you now have a president who will strip away the rights of the undesirables who refused to follow the command of their superiors and dared to vote for Hillary. What are you complaining about anyway? You got exactly what you and the rest of the piners have been rooting for.