If we are to believe conventional wisdom

[JCanete]

21. Well, our conventional wisdom has always sucked. Too little too late is not necessarily a win.

I still vastly prefer it!

There are some people absolutely too wet behind the ears or too insulated to understand the need for the social justice the democratic party is seeking, and so they are wrongly pushing for us to lay off of those issues, and to focus on "jobs." That misses the Sanders economic point greatly. The two are inseparable, and we can't win by abandoning the plights of our brothers and sisters. We need to fight for each other.

The rest of us might feel like we keep losing because we keep trying to play the game according to the rules of the people who keep winning. The prevailing wisdom here I think, is that we have to quit playing nice with corporations, and just go populist already. Those same corporations we're playing nice with don't declare all out war on us because we're a palatable alternative to their diet of choice, so that the public feels like it has one, but all our work to try to get a place at that table doesn't pay off most of the time. We water down our social justice and our economics and the corporations still have their media machine destroy us.

It was the media, more than anything else that elected Trump, so yes, we can stop blaming Sanders and we can stop blaming the Clinton campaign and the DNC, except that it is our very unwillingness to go after these mechanisms that ensured this loss and ensures all of the painful losses to come. We need to fight the corporate messaging. We need to call it out for what it is and suffer the consequences already, because we get those no matter what.