2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The rest of the story about Washington Post poll. [View all]PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)was cited. Basically the plan is to (externally from the Democratic Party) paint any VP as too liberal - obvious.
But part 2 is interesting. They want to internally split off Bernie supporters with the things we all talked about here exhaustively during primary season. However, if their nominee is Trump, no sane person will vote for the guy. Nonetheless that's what the article said.
Sometimes I wonder though. I know you and I used to be on opposite 'sides' in the primary. I'm all for Bernie's platform and I do want change. But it kills me that Trump is being portrayed as a 'populist' when the legitimate populist (in my opinion), Bernie, was systematically ignored, downplayed and otherwise minimized by the corporate owned media.
I wonder, pacificNW, if our party will learn anything from this split. I thought we had some wonderful discussions about Third Way, neoliberalism and the New Deal. Like I say - hope the party bigwigs get the message.