2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)My research was then. And while there were fewer of us (I won't even pretend to have numbers), it does not mean it wasn't real. Where were you then? Were you just voting for the slick and charming southerner with a D after his name, or did you actually listen to what he was proposing and educate yourself? If you did the later, then it is on you, not me or others who got it. Ross Perot got it and those that voted for him did as well. That is hardly the minority you retroactively wish to claim.
And yes average voters are low information ones. The purpose of forums like this are to educate them on what is really going on, what has been really going on, and what will go on if they vote in a particular way - in this case for another neoliberal New Dem.
Too pure? What the fuck do you even mean? Smarter than you were then? I have always been an educated voter. I take it seriously. I don't vote for a team. I don't vote for someone just because they are charming or give a pretty speech. And I educate voters around me that I come into contact with. Obviously from the roaring success that the Sanders campaign has been in such a short while, the 'fringe' is a lot of lot larger and more educated than you believe.
Identifying a candidate as a neoliberal Third Way politician is not 'name calling'. What idiotic bullshit you are trying to peddle. Those words have meaning and have for decades now. It is a statement of identification. Sanders is a Democratic Socialist. Sure, that can be made into an insult but nonetheless it is a statement of fact and identification. You guys really crack me the fuck up.