2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI admit defeat
Hillary won the primary.. but i just want to say im not happy about this. Its hard to describe the feeling but it feels like even though i feel like were all on the same side. Because i have a hard time supporting hillary that im not wanted. Not part of the family any longer. Its a bitter pill to swallow. I have been mostly undecided on the in the primary although i admit i have had a bias in favor of bernie,. I just love hes name i love hes genuineness. I love hes honesty. i love everything about him. i guess part of it growing up in a country where extreme anti semetism was taught to me. To be able to vote for a good man of jewish descent makes me proud. Proud to tell the extremism radical back home to go fuck themselves.
Im in California so im probably not needed by the hillary supporters to help clinton in california so off in exile i go. I will say though if i trump had any chance in california i would never stay home. But alas clinton should win this state easy without me.
So congrats Hillary supporters, i know many of you love hillary and the idea that finally a women was elected in the primary to become the president of the united states is historic and exciting. I wish you guys well. I do have my i voted sticker on to remind my self why i vote in the first place. Even if the candidate I'm rooting for doesnt win. But sad and feel defeated tonight.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)or sunshine patriot?
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)still_one
(92,116 posts)Clinton does not need Sanders supporters in California. Nothing can ever be taken for granted.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)But some party will begin to speak for those of us who are tired of there being two moderates running under different banners.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)and Hillary in the White House.
Everything Bernie wants can be brought up in Congress just as if he were President.
I want to tell you that you haven't lost just that there will be a slightly different path but ends up in the same place.
It may be hard to accept what I am saying but I feel very strongly that Bernie's revolution is not finished.
Hope you feel better soon
MADem
(135,425 posts)I drew comfort, eight years ago, by comparing the policy stances of my preferred candidate and her primary opponent. They weren't all that different.
Then I looked at the opposition.
It made it easy to flip the switch.
brooklynite
(94,483 posts)Most of my candidates lost.
Welcome to the real world.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)It should feel exciting. It should feel historic. It doesn't. Especially after the crap last night with the AP. I have never felt less like we are all on the same side.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)On anything that resembles the same side, there are rpugdems and us
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)For whatever reason, they did it and it was not the first time.
The big picture is now defeating Trump. That man is dangerous...
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)I think the bigger picture and what all of us can hold on to is the fact that we do NOT want Trump to win the White House.