2016 Postmortem

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somehow better on equal rights or social justice. Sanders has always been ahead of the times. Aside from universal healthcare, Clinton has usually lagged behind them.

And you have applied things to the poster that the poster just did not say. You take issue with "demographic war", fine. It seems to me the poster meant that as "fights for social justice," and said plainly that we should not abandon them. You then go on to pretend that the opposite was said, or meant.

It is by the way, tasteless to say Bernie's run was a political failure. You wouldn't be fond of it if people said that about Clinton's GE bid. Frankly, I've always bristled at the media's gleeful use of "failed Presidential candidate." It has a clear intention, and that is to make a person less relevant, less competent.

I absolutely disagree with your opinion, that Clinton's policies were more robust than Sander's. Hers were probably more fleshed out. On that, I couldn't give a shit. We need to make people want something so that the insiders actually start delivering it and Clinton just had less actual change to offer. She wanted to work with the people screwing us to unscrew us. That is basically, asking them to throw us a bone from time to time.

But we should be having a conversation about what we want our economic policies and direction to look like, rather than the both of us saying "nah-ah cuz clinton this , Bernie That!" This is continuing to get us nowhere, which is why I objected to the OP's premise.