2016 Postmortem

You would think a big blue state like California would be elated at a lifelong establishment New England senator from a very small state telling us about the perfectness of socialism. Maybe it's because Bernie didn't even get single-payer passed in his own home state that made people like the practical and realistic nature of Clinton. Maybe it's because people saw that Bernie unfairly maligned and attacked her by saying she was against single-payer when her true statement is that she realized that it would be hard to pass, so she thought it better to focus on more realistic policy.

Maybe people in other states and other voting blocs that Bernie irresponsibly stoked with nasty smears about Clinton bought what he was saying. Maybe that's what happened in Florida. This election turned on about 75,000 people spread over several states. If the people who gave protest votes to Sanders and Stein voted for Hillary instead, we wouldn't have Trump in office. So those people knowingly contributed to his presence there, and they obviously preferred it that way.

And about the avatar, I was saying that if you are that aware of the intricacies of that symbol, then it's highly likely that you were attuned to other nuances of his campaign. And the Bernie or Bust movement was far from nuance. It was an in-your-face strategy to defeat Clinton. It was the same thinking that was used to show that Gore wasn't perfect. Then we got Bush's war instead of Al Gore's environmental policies and a responsible use of Bill Clinton's surplus.

Your Christmas icon sounds great! I might join you in that. Cheers.