2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI don't hate Hillary! And I don't love Bernie! And I think there are more on DU like me...
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I have supported Hillary throughout the years beginning with the Whitewater witch hunt. I think she is a smart, tough candidate. If she is nominated I will support her 100%.
But she doesn't set me on fire.
When I first heard that there was this guy Bernie Sanders, a Democratic Socialist, running for President, my curiosity was piqued.
I listened to him talking about reining in the banksters with no apologies, getting health care for all under a sane workable and less expensive system, and finally making the one percenters pay a reasonable share of taxes, I started to get excited.
This is the kind of talk that I have been waiting for for the past 40 years, since I starting voting, often feeling despair as we faced Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes, who courted the worst elements of human nature and attacked liberals incessantly.
I thought that President Obama was going to change everything. I hoped...but that hope was stomped on by Republicans and their phoney Tea Party acolytes. And he unfortunately listened way too much to the Wall Street banksters. It has been discouraging.
I don't hate Hillary and I don't love Bernie. I just really like the fire he puts into his ideas and the way he is unafraid to go where Hillary fears to tread.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Dem2
(8,166 posts)I assume the majority of Democrats are like us. I really enjoy what Bernie is pushing, yet there's a practical side that says he might not be able to pull it off.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)Trans national cabal
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)And I do get nervous about the fact that Bernie has only been a senator and that from a very small state.
I plan to do everything I can to ensure his win, but it is strange, isn't it, that any time we have a charismatic and vibrant younger leader, they are "accidented" out of existence.