2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: UPDATE: Very Bad Development In Hillary's Email Investigation: She Knew It Was A Security Risk [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)... elevate Bernie.
And I don't think you or other Bernie supporters are any of the childish names you suggested.
And actually, I explained what needed to happen and "how this is all going to go" back in 2011. Repeatedly actually.
At the time, many on DU were running around demanding a primary opponent for Obama. They did not have an actual candidate mind you, they just wanted Obama to face an opponent because he's awful or he tricked them, or something.
I tried to tell those folks that they needed to turn their focus to 2016. They needed to get busy developing an array of alternative candidates that they thought would be "sufficiently liberal". And that if they did not ... they'd be spending 2015-2016 complaining about Hillary Clinton.
Did they get busy and develop an array of acceptable candidates? Nope. They continued to complain about Obama and then, late in 2014, they started trying to draft Warren to be their savior.
She declined. So Bernie agreed to carry the torch for them. But be clear on this ... Bernie stepped up only because there simply was no one else.
The perpetually disgruntled have not done the hard work of developing that array of alternatives. They've actually been complaining since the day Obama took office almost 8 years ago.
They wasted those 8 years. And now they expect Bernie to suddenly light the country on fire ... but instead of talking up Bernie, amplifying his message ... they spend the vast majority of their time doing what? Attacking Hillary.
Its not a very effective political strategy.