2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I would like to take this time to congratulate the media, republicans and the anti-Clinton crowd... [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)And they would likely stay home and feel alienated by the process if it were another Bush vs. Clinton battle. They've been screwed especially by both parties recently with the outsourcing of jobs, them being asked to pay far more for college education than any other generation, being spied upon heavily, having the old guard in both parties still trying to lock them up the way the prison industrial complex wants them to for things like drug "crimes", and being told and believing that there won't be any social security or medicare for them when they get old.
Bernie speaks to them on changing the system for what can work. The "party" of the Democrats will learn that if they don't want to die a horrible death (especially the centrists that try to continue their cancerous infection of them), they will either get behind Bernie and help him win in the general if he gets nominated, or they will be put in power in short order after the election in the party.
if the Dems nominate a centrist, there won't be motivation for traditional Democrats who have continued to be screwed to come out against the Koch money. They will though come out against the Koch money through things like social media, etc. to say *ENOUGH* of that sh*t! The "Bernie Spring" will have arrived then!