2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive.
The electorate can see through the DNC political games. What a shame for our country.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)It is something the HRC campaign just can not seem to get through their thick skulls.
Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)mia
(8,363 posts)At least some will be happy if he wins.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)unfavorably rating than Trump. Shenanigans come back to haunt and the masses are seeing it play out. It's bringing down the democratic party.
PatrickforO
(14,605 posts)rather than allowing a Sanders presidency, which would reverse some things that are going dangerously wrong and reintroduce some decency into our system.
Merryland
(1,134 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)the country. Bernie sounds like a true democrat and they are working ever so hard to bring him down with shenanigans. I guess as usual, follow the money trail.
mia
(8,363 posts)I used to hold our DC leaders in such high esteem.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)in the nation's tax and spending policies.
Trump is a member of the club and will probably listen to them, and even if he does screw up big, the fatcats are rich enough to survive it.
Getting a more progressive tax system, financial re-regulation, a scaled-back empire and such as that, on the other hand, would wreck the great little game they have put together for themselves.
From their perspective, it's worth losing an election to hold off meaningful change for another decade or two.
bjo59
(1,166 posts)I was actually surprised when my elderly mother told me how disgusted she was yesterday and again this morning. I was afraid she would believe, at least in some part, the non-stop propaganda disseminated by the MSM since Monday morning. Quite the opposite: a lifelong Democrat, she's now, almost overnight, completely dismissive of the party. The Rovian smear campaign was very ill-thought out.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)tolerate the direction of the new democratic party with the DNC/DLC/3rd-Way/DWS. That said, I will vote democratic by the candidate, but in no way do I want the aforementioned democratic party PTB to think I'm one of their guppies.
mia
(8,363 posts)I'm glad that your mother is wise to the truth and I hope that many more are looking beyond the nightly news.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)... like they have for the last 8 years too.
America is changing, time to progress no?
mia
(8,363 posts)Maybe a few weeks ago. America is changing. It's time to embrace new ideas. The GOP seems to be doing this better.