DNC Platform Developers Overriding Stands Taken by Both Candidates

[JudyM]

14. Yes. It was the perfect storm for Bernie, like a classic literary foil. There were so many of us

who got it, and all the others who either didn't appreciate the urgency of the timing or just aren't tuned in on that level... for whatever reason. And he took it farther than he thought it would go, which is the other positive here.... he came out ahead of where he thought he would be, and in so doing, both showed how deep our blood runs (even to him) and also advanced the issues much farther, even awakening awareness in our youngest adult generation.

The emotional wake that we're slogging through is "only" that there were problems that, without which, he'd have actually (likely) taken the whole thing... the external issues we've all lasered in on these past months together which now remain simply a shared understanding, dealing with injustices external to his campaign.... but also, to a lesser extent, his campaign/staff logistics also undercut his potential votes, at least that's what I observed as a volunteer in quite a few states. Like a young company that suddenly takes off, the infrastructure didn't get a chance to get built as well as it could have. I admire Jeff for what he did, but they had a lot of very young people in management positions who had zero management/project management experience and this hurt both planning and execution significantly; Clinton had an enormous advantage in the existing dem structure alone. But back to the positive about this: everything came together to make the movement bigger than it otherwise would have been, and we can trust that Bernie is planning his moves to capitalize on this to the maximum extent.