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In reply to the discussion: Supporting the values of the Sanders movement is not "refighting the primaries". [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)The issue with Bernie isn't policy or being "too far left"; Hillary ran on the kind of platform that McGovern or Mondale got massacred (if anything she ran to the left of both) on and needed unprecedented sabotage from the media, domestic security agencies, and foreign interference to lose the EC by the total margin of a football stadium (she also significantly closed the gap in GOP strongholds like Georgia, Texas and Arizona). The problem with Bernie and his movement is they're actively waging war the center-Left Dems for not being "pure" and "noncorrupt" enough, never mind their rather convoluted idea of what purity is, and its tepid support for Hillary depressed left-leaning turnout - Millennials in particular (if my generation had ONLY voted for Hillary the way they voted for Obama, HRC wins and we likely take the Senate, which is why I do not want to hear shit about the "youth vote" because the "youth vote" being unreliable is one of the biggest contributors to right-wing victory).