Congratulations, you played yourself!
Ok, this rant is from my working-class heart, but it is due time for a rant.
Well, who the hell are the Democrats going to blame now? The degree to which you scapegoat the Green Party or the white working-class is precisely the degree to which you are proving you will never learn a damn thing and are completely unable to lead this country.
If it wasn’t such a farce, I’d say it is King Lear redux.
Let’s look at some really basic, I mean high school level politics. Not fair, the average 16 year old is far wiser than the big shots of the DNC.
Establishment Candidate in an Anti-Established Year.
It’s not just that the Democrats did not take the pulse of the electorate. They did not even try.
Simple stuff really. It’s an anti-establishment year. So the DNC stays with the predetermined candidate that best represents the corrupt establishment itself. Duh.
The Democrats were oblivious to the deep discontent among the American people because that simply does not figure into their clever and cunning calculations. Why should it? Fear, lesser of two evils, scapegoating, palace politics — all these things worked in the past, didn’t they?
So all the discontent and unhappiness from years of economic distress fed right into the only other choice. We have the “great two party system” don’t we? Both Democrats and Republicans insist there is no alternative. The Democrats fail, the Republican succeed. Damn the binary, we so need a…