Hillary Clinton

To understand how all this applies to Bernie Sanders, let’s look at two movements with vastly disparate results: Occupy Wall Street and Otpor!. The former arose in the wake of the financial crisis, when young activists took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. Although their message of “the 99% vs. 1%” was compelling, they were back home within a few months, achieving little.

Now compare that to Otpor!, which was a similar group of activists in Serbia that sought to remove Slobodan Milošević from power, an objective that was achieved two years later. They went on to inspire and train other groups that sparked the Color Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Arab Spring. To date, they’ve helped to overthrow regimes in half a dozen countries.

Today, the Otpor movement lives on in the form of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) and its members travel around the world to advise and hold workshops for pro-democracy activists. CANVAS has worked in over 50 countries so far and has also developed a curriculum to spread its methods, which can be downloaded for free on its website.

Not a MOVEMENT.
A FAD.

It was MARKETING. Sanders tried to pre-package and market a revolution because he didn't know to make one, just like Occupy didn't know how to make one (and the OWS people ignored all the veteran organizers too). Major change takes years, often decades of on the ground organizing, sound tactics that are relevant to the facts on the ground, and a long-term, coherent vision. The "Left" threw that out after the 70s in favor of showy protests that ultimately accomplish nothing because they're just preaching to the choir.

There's a reason they call them CAMPAIGNS. Politics and war are, if not siblings, then cousins. As such, politics needs to be conducted with the level of precision, attention to detail, intelligence, savvy, and imagination needed to win a war. Maybe that's why the extreme Right wins all the time. Certainly the Left hasn't been able to pull it off in a century. Your plan cannot be, if you're serious, "focus group to a bunch of young voters, get them fired up on Twitter to make this look bigger than it actually is, throw everything together adhoc and then pray".

Ugh this shit makes me so mad seeing I used to support him because I spent too much time in the fever swamps of the political fringes instead of getting real news.