2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tell me why me and almost everyone else in my age group should trust Hillary. [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)That's the reality that Hillary supporters are gloating to hide their apprehension of...we're the future of the party and if we hold strong, they're going to eventually have to capitulate to us over the next 4-8 years or be marginalized entirely. They want us to buy in on Clinton and surrender that reality.
We need to stand strong and await the day we get to fully dictate the direction of the Democratic party to them. Look to the lesson of 1968...the GOP had a revolution in its primary (except Goldwater pulled off the nomination), the establishment hedged and sat on the sideline to allow that nominee to lose...but because the revolutionaries never surrendered, in 1976 they nearly pulled off the upset and by 1980, the stage was set for them to annihilate the GOP establishment which was fully-dead by 1984.
I'm not saying "Don't vote for Clinton" I am saying "Don't drink the Koolaid. This party is ours if we continue to take it from them by revolution and force." They're standing on the avalanche yelling "We won!" as it rolls down the hill towards their demise in a hard-landing. We're standing on the bedrock solid under our feet...they may (it's hardly certain) have the 2016 nomination, but we have the future of the party.