2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The rest of the story about Washington Post poll. [View all]PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)to 'talk back' to the media and sites like this help me fulfill that wish.
That said, there are some heavy hitters on here. If you want to see what is happening in the Dem establishment now it looks like Bernie will lose and Clinton will get the nod, look at the put-downs some people have written against people like me who will continue to speak out against 'free trade,' for unions, for lifting the cap on the Social Security payroll tax, for more heavily subsidized college for our kids and grandkids, for single payer healthcare...basically Bernie's platform, which to my mind would be a quite appropriate use of our tax dollars and would genuinely improve the lives of a huge swath of Americans.
Some seem to feel that now the 'unicorn thing' is over, we can go back to business as usual.
My feeling is that this would be a huge mistake for the Democratic party. Bernie has elevated the dialog and the Democratic party had better advance some real change, because this may be the last time New Deal Democrats like me vote for a centrist Democrat simply because she is perceived by some as a lesser evil than Trump (certainly so).
There are some voices that need to be listened to here. The establishment and corporate owned media was very adroit in quashing the real populist candidate (Sanders) but we still have a right wing populist-fascist candidate who has attracted all the neo-nazi ku klux xenophobic homophobic haters. Look at his platform - lots of these ignorant white men who are supporting him are working class stiffs who have watched 'free trade' policies fuck the middle class.
The thing we all should be against is neoliberal capitalism. Too bad some of the leaders in both Democratic and Republican parties are neolibs.