The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular

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54. The false equivalency is nonesense. Our candate lost because 11 days

before the election Comey sent a letter to the republicans in Congress, which MSNBC was the first to report as breaking news that the email investigation had been reopened. THAT WAS A LIE. MSNBC then proceeded to parade every right wing politician across their screen for the next hour and a half perpetuating that LIE. Within two hours the other networks followed suit with the same LIE.

The polls begin to fall immediately after that. Then a few days later, Bret Baier from fox news came out and said "his sources within the FBI said an indictment was pending on the Clinton Foundation". That was also a LIE. 48 hour later Bret Baier came out and apologized that he made a mistake, but various news outlets including Google news, spewed that garbage, and the damage was pretty much done by then. It didn't mater that in the 11th hour Comey came out and said there was no need to reopen the investigation into the emails.

Then we had Jill Stein imploring her folks not to vote for Hillary under any circumstances, even if they lived in a swing state, and spreading the LIE that Hillary was worse than trump.

Hillary lost Michigan by .3%. Jill Stein received 1.1% of the vote. Similar results in Wisconsin and the other critical swing states.

Every Democrat running for Senate in a swing state lost to the ESTABLISHMENT, incumbent, republican, and that included Russ Feingold and other progressives.

The election was lost because of the FBI interference, and the polls indicated that without a doubt.

One small fact that is also ignored. 99% of Hillary's supporters would have voted for Bernie if he was the Democratic nominee. The reverse was not true, and Noam Chomsky made that very clear:

Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a ‘bad mistake’

"Legendary linguist and activist Noam Chomsky thinks that progressives and left-wingers who didn’t want to vote for Hillary Clinton this year have badly miscalculated — and will now pay a very dear price."

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“I think they [made] a bad mistake,” said Chomsky, who reiterated that it’s important to keep a “greater evil” from obtaining power, even if you’re not thrilled with the alternative. “I didn’t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump’s on every issue I can think of.”

Chomsky also attacked the arguments made by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who argued that Trump’s election would at least shake up the system and provide a real rallying point for the left.

“[Zizek makes a] terrible point,” Chomsky told Hasan. “It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in the early ’30s… he’ll shake up the system in bad ways.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/