2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I DON'T support Bernie for President [View all]calimary
(81,110 posts)Even in a best-case-scenario for EITHER Hillary or Bernie, there's the matter of the lovely Congress and the lovely Senate which would have to go along with whatever the President initiates. The House may be too gerrymandered to take back, but the Senate is possible. However, if mitch mcdonnell is still there, he'll probably launch another "Let's Make 'Em a One-Termer!" clown show and we would again see wall-to-wall obstruction, whether the bad guys were able to hang onto the Senate or not. Look how shitty it got as of 2010.
I really wish somebody would connect the dots on this one, with the voters. You say you hate how nothing gets done? You hate how Congress has become a complete ineffective, flaccid, impotent joke? Then WHY do you vote republi-CON? Cuz THAT is what you get when you vote republi-CON. WHY do you side with people who don't want the government to work - for you or for anybody else? WHY do you send the government-haters to Washington, then, and complain that nobody gets anything done? VOTE DEMOCRATIC in 2016. At least WE get things done. And btw, how do you like that health care you can finally afford? The GOP didn't give you that. The DEMS did. The GOP wants to take it AWAY from you!
"Unless Sanders spends more time explaining how his promises could possibly get enacted, and how his hoped-for "revolution" will take place, he runs the risk of raising many Democratic hopes, only to have them dashed in the near future." Um... anybody remember the "Son-of-a-Bitch-Used-Car-Salesman" thing?