2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: You know... [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)So many are and won't vote. This isn't accidental.
The right wing has spent the last 35 years trying to disillusion and disgust the American electorate into not voting because the lower the turnout each 2 and 4 years the better right wing candidates do. With variations of the same tactics, they keep their big asset, far right voters, always angry and energized.
I disagree that "Democrats" have so few ideas. Bernie's practically speaking one of us, just prefers to wear a different label because he wants to go farther. You have to remember the U.S. population as a whole shifted strongly right starting in the late 1970s. It's not corruption that forced the Democratic Party, full of Bernies before then, to accept far more moderate goals. Democratic voters wanted moderation, therefore forced it on their representatives or replaced them.
This made right wing obfuscation easy. Because so many of the right wing's goals and policies are damaging and undesirable to most Americans, including many nonextremist conservatives, they worked very long and hard to fool people into believing
A. The Democrats did it.
B. There is no real difference between the parties. They're both equally bad.
NOT true. The issues Bernie and other Democrats address are in fact now those of most Americans, but if the GOP wins, they will not only undo all the change started in the Obama administration and restore business as usual but use the Supreme Court to calcify their ideology into law for generations.