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In reply to the discussion: Supporting the values of the Sanders movement is not "refighting the primaries". [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)You seem to have a much larger estimate for a very particular type of person that would have voted for Hillary.....and then Bernie came along and offered them something they thought sounded better.....and then Bernie lost......so they completely flipped over to Trump.
Sorry but I just cannot see these kinds of mentally confused people having in any way enough numbers to affect the outcome.
Johnson voters would never have voted Hillary, and Stein would have gotten the same small percentages regardless. Stein had 1% of the vote. This Vox article explains why Jill Stein voters did not deliver Donald Trump the presidency. http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/11/13576798/jill-stein-third-party-donald-trump-win
I just think you and others like you must drop this blame of Sanders for OUR loss in order for all of us to 'get moving'. I don't see how we can when every time Bernie gets into the news with a new attack on Trump, even if he is standing next to a Democrat, that all he gets is negative energy and resentment from some in here based on some false meme that he is to blame somehow for our loss.
I never said anything about 'fixing', but now that you mention it there is nothing wrong with finding ways we could improve and get our message out better as a party. For instance the Democrats, and the Clintons, moved from supporting traditional marriage only to heralding marriage equality.
Yet the majority of white women voted for a sexual abuser over the possibility of the first female president. Surely we can do a better job in some areas. We evolve, we adapt, we can always do better. In fact improving our delivery is imperative in order to attract an overwhelming majority next time.