2016 Postmortem

He has never said he could fix anything alone.

He has kept his message very simple, and that has been a good thing. Clinton has talked out of every side of her mouth and managed to say nothing at all. People take that for sophistication. She's not counting on intelligent people to vote for her, she's counting on people being so baffled by what she says that they think she must be the most qualified for the job. And she gets a lot of help being represented that way.

I absolutely agree with you about our electorate, and I would be lying if I didn't think that Bernie had pulled some people without a clue to his side. But at least he's pulling them to his side with the actual realities of our system. At least he's focusing on those issues that cut to the core of our democracy. At least his message was one of galvanizing the issues of white middle class Americans together with the interests of the poor and minorities, and immigrants. His message was one of common cause...until the Clinton camp and the media did its number on it and went with the old divide and conquer.

It would be cool if maybe we had a better system of education in this country, but that's just the old guy who's preying on our ignorance that wants free college.

See, from my perspective, if you aren't in the top 1% and you are voting for Clinton, then you aren't voting in your self interest, and maybe that's a matter of being just a wee bit ignorant on her actual history and policies. Funny enough, nobody on this board of boards has done a good job of explaining why Clinton is better than Sanders on any issue under the Sun, cept that "she's so wonky..." I will accept that democrats in the top 1% are overwhelmingly pro-Clinton, and she even has plenty of republican support up there, and that they are not generally ignorant on politics, so, well, there's that. What could they see in her?