2016 Postmortem

You give Bernie way too much credit for Americans distaste for and resentment of the "establishment". THAT was a pre-existing condition ... but only to the majority of Americans, obviously not all as your post so ably exhibits.

Obama did not push 8 years for "most of what [Bernie] was advocating". That';s an outright lie. Prove me wrong. And, oh, by-the-way, you conveniently forget (or ignore) that Obama himself was also an anti-establishment candidate when he defeated Hillary in the 2008 primary.

Bernie was honest. You are sounding a lot like Trump here -- anything that doesn't square with your view is wrong, false, dishonest. Bernie criticized Hillary for voting to go to war against Iraq, accepting money from and having a cozy relationship with Wall Street, supporting the TPP and NAFTA, etc, etc. That sounds like honest criticism to me. Honest criticism isn't something that is or should be out of bounds in any election. ...

You also somehow miss the remarkably basic fact that Bernie was running against Hillary, not Trump or the GOP at the time. Pure sour grapes. The only semi-legitimate point you could possibly have made was that Bernie leveled similar criticism against the Democratic Party. But I say semi-legitimate because his criticism was right, honest and admirable in my and many other lifelong Democrats opinions. There are a hell of a lot of us who fully distrust the neoliberal element in the Democratic Party -- for good reason -- and we aren't going away.

Your argument that the federal government is the "establishment" is specious at best. Don't even try to make that case to anyone with half a brain.

If it isn't obvious to you, I am fed up with the BS that is coming out of the Hillary camp here at DU post election. I am fed up with neoliberal philosophy that sells average Americans out in the name of globalism based on simplistically false notions that the "horse is already out of the barn" and that technology and robotics are principally to blame. Accepting those notions is accepting defeat.

Enough said -- other than I am not going away. You may actually be able to change my thinking on some of this, but not by scapegoating, placing blame or criticizing honesty and principle.