2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]R B Garr
(16,914 posts)You've obviously been doing reading to support your current position(s), and then retroactively applying those talking points as if they had the same impact that they did then. They didn't. Your own writing betrays that: "most voters fell for the successful marketing." No shit, because that's what it was -- marketing.
So YOU do the math, smart boy (using your words). Everything you are talking about is a revision of what was going on at the time. I doubt you "saw through" the "New Dem" Clinton bullshit over 30 years ago because there was no history to see through yet. You continue using current words to describe decades-old campaign techniques, which were just slogans at that point. Yet you just knew how it would all turn out some 30 years later. LOL, sure thing.
BTW, 30 years ago, appealing to corporations was not a dirty thing like it's made out to be now. That's yet another of your many fallacies. If what you are saying is true about the PUB's, Clinton would not have a substantial lead in the polls. But you keep telling yourself that the Democratic party can't survive without you. We have, and we will. The fringe has always been there, but that hasn't stopped us before.