2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Explains How He Would Deal With An Obstructionist Congress [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)that I've tried but no one I've contacted back in 2012 wanted to deviate from voting for Dianne Feinstein. We had a chance to get a real Liberal to beat her in her primaries. In 2012, I donated to his campaign and went door-to-door (most doors slammed in my face!) for Mike Strimling to get the support he needed in order to beat DiFi. I was really driven because I dislike her so.
People refused to listen. They chose to vote for the candidate the California Democratic Party was pushing.
In the end, he got less votes than Orly Taitz. Bummed me out big time. I'm still not really over it.
So this is why I keep saying here and on other boards, if we want a president like Bernie Sanders, we need to give him a Congress that will work with him. The Congress we have now, even when Democrats take back the Senate in 2016, will not work with him. They're already showing that by not endorsing him. To date, he's received zero endorsements from Dems in House, Senate, and States. Not even the Democratic governor of Vermont, Sanders' home State, wanted to endorse him. Peter Shumlin endorsed Hillary Clinton back in May.
That's the writing on the wall, and it's not a good sign for Sanders.