2016 Postmortem

Bernie is NOT a Democrat NOW and only became one to run for President. Even then, most of his criticisms were directed towards other Democrats rather than Republicans. He seems to be continuing in that vein. and the M$M gleefully keep giving him a platform to do so.

The facts are that Bernie lost the Dem primaries by some four million popular votes and that Hillary Clinton won the GE popular vote against Trump by nearly three million votes.

Hillary lost in the rust belt for a variety of reasons that those who are more patient than I can reiterate and have already reiterated countless times, but primarily because of low information fundamentally religious voters who literally hate anything they deem to be "liberal" and who have voted against their own interests since at least 1980. There is literally NO reaching such people. They will always wait until the last minute to choose who to vote for and they will almost always follow what their respective church leaders tell them to do.

I am someone who was raised among and related to many such people. I thought better of them and thought that they would recognize the Con in Don, among other things, but this election has completely opened my eyes because they continue to try to justify their unacceptable votes to me - who for some reason they like personally and are upset because I have completely lost patience with them and frankly wish to have nothing further to do with them. I am done with "playing nice." F*ck them all! They'll literally have to come crawling.

Those reasons, together with Russian hacking & other interference, fake news, outright cheating, an archaic electoral system and blatant misogyny, cost Hillary the election.

Bernie's theories may sound good, especially to those who hate Dems, but all he is doing, IMO, is continuing to cause division when he should be stressing unity of purpose.