2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you don't think Bernie and his campaign and his supporters basically calling Hillary [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)speeches, and for the life of me I have no idea. There was a reason why Bernie repeated, ad nauseum his platform points. It was new to so many people and it was a message that needed to be hammered. Trust me, I got bored of it too, and I've listened to Sanders in numerous forums...he's quite capable of talking off book, so I wanted more from him, but I understand the approach.
You are right, that is the campaign finance system of today. Clinton's approach is a valid one in recognition of that reality. Can the Clinton approach actually change that reality, is the question we should be asking. Can people who become insiders within that system be just too beholden to it and too comfortable within it to even want to change it?
What Sanders accomplished was to actually get the DNC to develop a platform that excited me and made me feel hopeful for our system of government again, and hopeful for our GE candidate who started, fucking finally, taking declarative positions on prisons, and college tuition. If his influence on the democratic party made people feel less hopeless about the nation's direction, to the point where it brought some of us back to the voting booth, then how did he lose her the GE?