2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Condescending Hillary fans: Man, did this pro-Bernie blogger get it right. [View all]cosmicone
(11,014 posts)it is always beholden to its customers.
GM would be nothing if "people" didn't buy GM cars.
Procter & Gamble will be on its knees if "people" didn't buy downy or tide or dial or charmin
Kellog's would disappear if "people" stopped eating cereals
The people who whine about corporations are the ones who lack the critical mass to change a corporation's actions.
Noam Chomsky is a classic example. For all his vitriol over the years, he has not been able to attract "people" to gather en masse and support his views.
The great thing about America is that it is also a marketplace for ideas and thought. Ideas that people like sell and ideas that people reject either sit on the shelf or are sent to a paper shredder.
Bernie and Hillary have been on a level playing field and both had the exact same opportunity to market their ideas. Unfortunately, 75% of the democrats do not want a socialist revolution. Them's the breaks.
It is an inconvenient truth that despite an army of internet warriors wearing their fingers to the bone on the internet, people have not moved and it is looking increasingly likely that they won't move. This is despite the constantly unfair attacks on Hillary from the moderately asinine that she represents wall street, she is a corporatist, she is a criminal, she is a flip-flopper to the extremely looney about Vince Foster and secret lesbianism.
It is time to accept the inconvenient truth that people are not buying Bernie's message no matter how salubrious his supporters may think it is. Insisting on the same message over and over and expecting different results leads to Einstein's definition.
At least the so called "corporations" (which are also owned by people by the way) will change the soap/cereal/car design formula if it is not selling and come up with a better product.
Steadfastly insisting that people should like one's product and then blaming/attacking people who are not buying that product is the wrong strategy.