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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia? [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)But I also don't see any actual plans to improve the situation in all that funereal moaning you link to about how far the Party has fallen.
Certainly not specific ideas for the specific candidate, Bernie Sanders, to win people in the party back from that way of seeing things. If they would just be instantly converted the moment someone talked to them honestly about this stuff, they wouldn't have been persuaded otherwise in the first place.
So clearly there is other stuff going on that has in the past put them in the Clintonian column even when there were viable or even electorally superior alternatives.
Undoing this is not a simple matter or it would already have happened. Obama's talents just barely overcame the phenomenon to win nomination in 2008, and yet it still lingers and seeks to retake the Party. So I eventually need to hear from Sanders some explanation, or preferably demonstration, of how he intends to meet or exceed Obama's performance in this respect. Without that, I would have little confidence and my vote for him would just be a despair default.
Being right is such a small part of being a successful candidate even under ideal conditions. None of us should have the attitude that being right means we are owed victory - we will get the victory we build, or else inherit one form of defeat or another.