2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Just wondering...is any reference to not campaigning in WI., not sending extra help to MI and PA, [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)Or PA, or WI?
Also, have you perhaps educated yourself on what was going on in MI, and WI and PA? Where VOTES WERE NOT COUNTED, this after increased turnout, in Dem areas, despite voter suppression, purging and pretty much every shady way to depress turnout?
Why pretend that increased turnout, and historic numbers of votes are "significant mistakes in strategy or in organization"?
What is so terrible about actually saying things that are actually true, require attention and were screamed about for years by the Democrats, as people refused to get off their rears and go vote or pay attention to things like voting rights violations and unsecure voting machines?
If the electorate had bothered to pay attention, were not busy blaming the DNC for the GOP's actions and their own failures to bother to show up, and were not so poisoned by the media and the losing primary candidate, a 3rd party with zero chance at winning, people wouldn't have been writing in Bernie and thumbing their nose at the party. They might have bothered to vote for a valid candidate and not a pointless one, let's not forget what the margins were of the votes counted.
Why won't you accept that the things that could have been done differently might have been the actions of the purists, the ones too lazy to vote, or to inform themselves and who attacked us all for pointing out the obvious consequences of the RW rhetoric and false purity? Why do you pretend that it wasn't significant mistakes in strategy of the "pure" ones who were played badly, that didn't contribute to the current chaos? The fact that you guys are STILL at it, with literally the same nonsense should tell you a little something.