2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Peacelover Hillary voted for an insane war that killed hundreds of thousands, but Bernie [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Mostly this tactic isn't one that individuals just stumbled on, it's one that was devised and it constantly gets massaged. It's enlightening to see how low some will go to advance the ball for their faction.
But we can't hold grudges against those who've been duped. Eventually they'll be abandoned by those instigating the false narrative and their path forward shouldn't be made any harder by acrimony over the past. We need to reflect the history Senator Sanders has lived through. Part of building a coalition for progress is letting go of the irrelevant disputes of the past.
The false narrative has lost its traction and those who were pushing it are fine tuning the new talking points. It will be all about electability, the utility of money from those who devastated our economy, and lots of historical revisionism. That will be the new front.
The Sanders campaign unexpectedly prevailed, and exceeded even the optimistic expectations of supporters, in the first skirmishes for winning over voters, and that's a true narrative that's galling to those still pushing the inevitable candidacy of HRC meme. Too much was invested in that meme for it to decently evolve into a willingness to compete to win the hearts and minds of the Democratic party.