2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: To my Clinton supporter friends [View all]Gothmog
(145,176 posts)Sanders is appealing to a very narrow segment of the party base and is doing well into states with 90+% white voting populations. I like Sanders personally and his positions are closer to my positions according to that online quiz but I do not think that Sanders is viable in a general election contest where the Kochs will be spending $887 million and the RNC candidate will be spending another billion dollars. Many good democrats are not supporting Sanders for a host of reasons. That is how the primary process works.
I do admit that I was taken back when a Sanders supporter told me that I was a bad parent because my two daughters were supporting Hillary Clinton and that I was excited by this. I am also turned off by some of the conduct of the Sanders supporters on other threads but my lack of support for Sanders is not based on this conduct. Attacking other Democrats and calling other democrats names such as "corporate democrats" and "third way" democrats is not a smart way to change peoples minds. I doubt that the Sanders supporters are winning any converts to their cause with their attacks but that is not my problem.
I look forward to the Super Tuesday primary and conventions. I will be curious to see if Sanders can do well in states other than Iowa and New Hampshire. I have plenty to do in the real world including trying to turn Texas blue. We are hoping for the 5th Circuit to rule on the en banc review of the Voter Id decision and a ruling on the Texas redistricting case in the next couple of weeks and both of these matters are far more important to me right now than some of the stuff I see posted on this internet.