Oh those awful monolithic Bernie supporters. Angry for no reason, and all exactlly alike.

[Armstead]

106. I have my own theories

The economy hit the skids in the 70's and people were hung over from the 60's, and teh nation took a conservative turn. Liberalism got blamed for a lot of things.

That was initially a natural swing of the pendulum that occurs periodically, However, big Corporations took advantage of it to make a power grab, and allied with the GOP to push Reaganomics and "supply side." And te country bought into it, even though t was against the interests of average people.

Unfortunately, the Democratic Party decided to capitulate, and joined the GOP in this push. They faild to defend "liberalism: and threw it under the bus. Thus the DNC/Third Way/Triangulation and Biill Clinton, who talked like a populist but governed like a conservative.

And as part of that, the Democrats joined the GOP in ignoring the systemic problems brewing below the glittery surface in the 90's, and kept tossing Liberalism under the bus, and instead echoed the corporatist conservative line.

Recently what is now called progressivisn -- but is really liberalism -- has been reasserting itself, through people like Bernie and Warren.

Obama partiallyy represented that as an aspiration, but due to the situation and the Third Way part of his beliefs, he could only go so far.

I see this election as a chance to reassert progressive liberalism, instead of reverting back to the 3rd Way bullshit.