2016 Postmortem

The OP? Anyone on this board? No? I thought not. Bernie's civil rights activism is deeply rooted in him, whether in his 20s or his 70s. Poo-pooing it looks idiotic, especially as MLK's own church embraced Bernie... on MLK Day.

Look, I understand some on this site are working their little fingers to the bone in an attempt to *diminish* one Bernard Sanders, but out in the real world, he and his ideas are being embraced by influential Democrats at all levels of government, from Atlanta's Mayor Reed, to Michigan's Debbie Stabenow, to New York's Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer. Maybe some are waking up to the fact that Democrats fully controlling only six states -- an historic low -- blows beyond belief. You may be happy with that number, but I'm not.

I, too, care less about a candidate's outward appearance than I do about ideas. Sarah Palin and Carly Fiorina look like me in that we're white women, but I would never vote for them. Hillary's Methodist, right? So am I. Was I supposed to bond with her over religion? I ran to the polls to vote for Obama, twice. What the fuck was that all about?

Sanders has flaws. Hillary has flaws. We all have flaws. I knew his candidacy was a long shot, but Bernie did tremendously well against the Clinton Machine. So many I spoke to said they preferred Bernie's ideas but thought Hillary had the better chance of beating Trump. How'd that work out, folks?

Seriously, I'm in these threads to see if we'll *ever* find out who sent "the letters." The new money is on Russian trolls, the ones who tinkered with voting machines in Michigan and Wisconsin.