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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie was mean to Hillary and Hillary was mean to Bernie
So, let waste some more energy on something that ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)It's getting so old! People need to grow up!
elleng
(131,227 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,348 posts)elleng
(131,227 posts)applegrove
(118,845 posts)Bernie runs against some establishment type again. So we do not knee jerk but come at the race from an understanding of the realities of how we lost?
murielm99
(30,778 posts)What are you talking about? Bernie Sanders is part of the establishment. And just who is this big, bad establishment? The Democratic Party? Planned Parenthood?
applegrove
(118,845 posts)That way we would be less sore. And not as easily manipulated by right wing trolls claiming to be on one side or the other.
murielm99
(30,778 posts)is a new one. We will have to learn to use social media wisely and regulate it before it ruins our democracy.
applegrove
(118,845 posts)would start an ID app. One Democratic underground could then use. So there were not trolls and bots.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Some people want to blame Sanders, some people want to blame unsupported claims of vote fraud, some want to blame every Trump supporter being racist/sexist, some want to blame Clinton for not being Sanders, etc. Many people on the Clinton/Sanders divide are too caught up in blaming either Sanders or Clinton to actually look at the situation objectively.
applegrove
(118,845 posts)why.
TheBlackAdder
(28,232 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)murielm99
(30,778 posts)They are new to politics and do not understand how things work. They have little understanding of the electoral process, and little understanding of how government works and how governing is accomplished.
I see a great deal of this at some of the meetings of the newer grassroots organizations. They need to educate themselves.