2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: You Choose... Sanders or the Presidency [View all]Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)I'm still open to any Dem candidate except one who I regard to be even worse than some of the lunatics in the GOP camp. So I'm not married to Sanders as a candidate (nor do I reject him), but a Democratic win is only important to the extent that we actually get a genuine Democrat in office, and not someone who has spent a lifetime undermining the objectives of the party in order to gain personal power, influence, and wealth.
For example, unless there's some horrible baby-eating incident I'm not aware of, I can live with O'Malley as candidate, and at that point a Democratic win would be the clear priority.
My main political objective at this point is breaking the stranglehold of the banker-and-billionaire club on the nation's political and economic systems. The Democratic Party must serve up a candidate who can at least plausibly advance that goal, or its victory in the general will be pointless at best, and at worst will get us tarred with the blame for a set of odious policies that have mostly come from the other side.