2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you don't think Bernie and his campaign and his supporters basically calling Hillary [View all]Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)will now pay a price...Trump is the president ...God help us. I expect we would have lost Virginia had she picked Bernie...Bernie's message did not work for even Democrats... which is why he lost the primary...he would not have helped during the election...while some of his fans may have voted for the ticket...we would have lost other voters...who simply did not like his policies. The oppo would have been brutal...because the GOP still would have had all the ammo Bernie provided during the Primary against Hillary and they would have added the Bernie oppo...which would have been new to voters and effective in my opinion... a shitshow for sure...Those who really like Bernie don't understand that not everyone does. For example, I want to help kids with college tuition-I am putting my third kid through school, and we may have to eat cat food in our old age...but having a plan that gives everyone (even rich folks) free tuition and uses payroll tax to pay for it was a non-starter with me...first of all the payroll tax is a very regressive tax. And there was nothing in Bernie's message about public education...so you could have had poor parents paying to send the kids of rich folks to college. It was not a well thought out plan. You see I did look at both Hillary and Bernie carefully. The break up the banks plan would have cost jobs as well, and I think is not needed...we can regulate the banks carefully. I always felt that we would not get much this year with a gerrymandered congress...but the courts were crucial. And if we can't stop Trump from appointing his justices, we will lose all progressive policy since Roosevelt...ironic that we would lose this policy due to those who call themselves progressive...now I am a Democrat and had Bernie been the nominee, I would have worked for his campaign and voted for him...too bad some of his supporters didn't feel the say way. Now we have the GOP in charge of all branches of government...people will literally die. I am glad not to have that on my conscience.