2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What lessons do YOU take from the results? [View all]Scruffy1
(3,252 posts)You can't hang around Washington forever without wearing out your welcome. Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Barak Obama were one term senators. Jimmy Carter was a Georgia governor. In Indiana, the bosses went for Evan Bayh for "name recognition" and he got his ass handed to him. Same in Wisconsin. It's just like baseball. You have to be bringing up new ones all the time. The real problem is that years of bullshit lying by the media takes it toll. A lot of people on the right and left actually believe the crazy crap about the Clintons killing people. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant, if you have to spend all your time talking about emails or other nonsense you will lose.
Fact is, the fascists are just better at throwing shit at the wall then we are, but if we went in that direction we would lose our soul,or what is left of it. On the left both Kerry's and Hillary's war authorization cost them a lot of votes. The Democratic Party should stand for something besides the status quo. Universal health care has been on the platform since before I was born and yet neither of our last 2 Presidential candidates went for it. The real myth to me is that the ones who don't vote are in the center. I know a lot of lefties who refused to vote for Hillary because they consider her a warhawk and a neoliberal. Rightly or wrongly, it might have been the difference in the election, yet the Party keeps looking for the votes from the "center". Personally, I think anyone who hasn't chosen sides by now is probably comatose.