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In reply to the discussion: To the people who did not vote for HRC & still bragging about it. You are not an ally!. THREAD: [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)I have not even seen many posts saying that they did not vote, voted for a third party or for Trump.
I suspect what some of the posters are mistaking for that are the very normal posts that say that had HRC not been the nominee - we would have won. This is no different than the committed Deaniacs or even the Kuchinich people and some arguing that that could have been HRC's year who claimed that the Democrats would have won had Kerry not been the nominee - note there were many such comments in 2005 and 2006 before the focus was 2008. (The comments that it could have been HRC's year were very recent.)
Those posts, no matter how painful for people who strongly supported the nominee, may be unfortunate and unhelpful, but they are NOT the same as arguing for NOT voting for the nominee in the upcoming election. They are also NOT saying that they were not among the people who voted for the nominee - even if they did not like her/him.
One danger this time is that there has been a fairly large number of posts that actually fault Sanders for having run against her and extend the critism to all who supported him or anyone who critized HRC in any way. I get the sensitivity. I hated the negative comments on Kerry, who I still think ran a strong race at a difficult time with less than full support from many Democrats. I get that many HRC supporters are implicitly saying that Clinton was not given as much support from left leaning Democrats as she deserved.
Post motems are always painful for the loser. Because the media and pundits want to make the results conform to the story, every highlight that still rings true to you is eliminated, while any faux pas - no matter how minor it really was - becomes part of the reason for the loss. On the other hand, whether GWB, Bill Clinton, Obama etc the winning team showed great strategy and brilliance in winning. Fortunately, Trump is so aberrant that we have at least been spared this. In reality, life is messier than what makes a good coherent story.