2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: BERNIE SANDERS APPRECIATION THREAD [View all]prairierose
(2,145 posts)doing program Brunch with Bernie on the Thom Hartmann. It was so refreshing to regularly spoke common sense and was a progressive politician who understood regularly people and cared about them.
I started writing to him asking him to run months before the organizations began trying to influence him. I donated more money to his campaign than any other in the past.
I am pissed about the way the DNC treated him although I was not the least bit surprised.
I am grateful to him for giving me someone I believed in, to vote positively for, instead of voting for the lesser of two evils/
I really hope many of the people he energized and brought into a movement will continue to be active in politics, learn that politics is the art of , and vote for Hillary and hold her feet to the fire in order to gain the ideals that Bernie espoused.
This is just the beginning of a struggle that will last for years in order to turn back neoliberal policies and economics that have caused so much damage in this country.
People need to understand what Bernie was talking about when he said he wanted to begin a movement and people need to begin to understand the inside outside movement politics concept. We must take the DNC back from the neoliberals who have been running it since the late 80's. We need to build the 50 state Dem parties and begin to build farm teams that help young people start running at a local level and build their skills so they can run for higher office. WE need to take back those local governments, state house and governor's mansions across the country and we need to work on instant runoff voting so that we can begin to move away from the winner take all two party system.
Bernie changed the conversation and we need to keep talking to our neighbors about all of the important issues that he brought up.