2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is in big trouble: You don’t have to be a neoliberal shill to see the cold, hard fact [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,386 posts)I certainly understand how you feel.
Bernie and Martin have both contributed significantly to pulling the Dem establishment and rhetoric to the left, IMO, and I certainly cheer them for that among their many other sterling qualities. I want to see both of them stay in and continue with that good work.
And then, who knows? It's still early in the game. But for the long haul, whoever the Dem nominee is will need the Dem establishment and this is a basic truth. The GOPers certainly aren't going to help.
Like many in the US, I wish that we had a functioning multi-party system. But that is not what we have and that will not have changed by the 2016 election.
Thanks for always voting! Yours is a beautiful state, right next to my birth state. You can blame the early MT politicians for getting to DC first and making their case for the Northern Rockies, thus giving Idaho its panhandle link to Canada. Sorry about that! http://history.idaho.gov/territorial-history