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New Clinton postmortem of campaign includes criticism of Sanders policy promises

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NeoXChaos

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Democrats in the South don't consider abortion rights to be of any concern.

Yes, there's a difference between Southern Democrats and the rest of the country.

They don't show up, they don't care, they don't matter. Yes I said it. When there's enough of them to hit 40% vote in the state, sure, THEN I'll care.

Stop trying to win fucking Arksansas, Texas, and Mississippi. Start trying to win Wisconsin and Michigan. This isn't new ideas. This is looking at a goddamn map and knowing where to prioritize resources.

What difference does it matter how popular someone is in the South, when the whole fucking region is redwash. Like, seriously, 90% votes for R. It doesn't matter that you got 9% of the remaining 10% it doesn't matter a damn bit.

First we had the claim that the South should not be worth more in delegates than the rest of the states in the primary and now this.

Don't forget that Bernie won liberal bastion states like Idaho, Kansas, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota.
 
The fact that someone disagrees with you does not mean that they are acting on behalf of the Kremlin or acting in ways that benefit them.

Calm the fuck down, take a few steps back, and ask yourself who is appearing more ridiculous in this conversation right now.

I'm very ridiculous right now, for even engaging with you.

But since you seem thick in the head lets lay out the evidence for you!

Lets psychoanalyze your responses using this sheet we have here http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/depressionhelp/files/2016/11/Unhelpfulthinking.png

It's almost like, *gasp* SHOCK AND HORROR, *PEOPLE CAN CHANGE THEIR VIEWS*.

The fuck are we asking for as leftists if not for that?

For moderates to stop concern trolling & enabling republicans into every bloody level of government.

First off, you start going off on some tangent about leftists being moderates for changing their views

The issue here is Hillary is a LEFTIST, running a campaign that panders to CENTRISTS. Like Bill Maher. A certified drag ,

Primaries are where you acquiesce your base before you "move to the center" for the General Election. Hillary didnt do a great job of that.

SECONDLY:

So people who think that others can change their views are moderates?

Jesus fuck, I wish I had the supernatural ability to baselessly discern the political views of the people I'm debating with that you seem to.

Oh boy oh boy, you're getting SERIOUS now.



Uh huh. Tell me more about how I'm a Russian shill for not accepting Bernie as my lord and saviour.



Like what the hell man? You go from Zero to 100 In an instant. LOL.

Not only are you applying "All or nothing thinking, you're jumping to conclusions and


Then out of nowhere you decide to accuse me of calling you a Russian shill. Nobody was going there in the first place, but wham you decided to bring the conversation there?

Why?

THIRD: You decide to put words in my mouth based off some wild baseless conclusion that isnt based on any semblance of reality

Tell me more about jumping to conclusions. Mr. "You're a moderate for thinking that people can change their beliefs based on reasoned arguments".

Also literally doesn't mean what you think it means. My nose is perfectly fine, thanks.


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Democrats in the South don't consider abortion rights to be of any concern.

Yes, there's a difference between Southern Democrats and the rest of the country.

They don't show up, they don't care, they don't matter. Yes I said it. When there's enough of them to hit 40% vote in the state, sure, THEN I'll care.

Stop trying to win fucking Arksansas, Texas, and Mississippi. Start trying to win Wisconsin and Michigan. This isn't new ideas. This is looking at a goddamn map and knowing where to prioritize resources.

What difference does it matter how popular someone is in the South, when the whole fucking region is redwash. Like, seriously, 90% votes for R. It doesn't matter that you got 9% of the remaining 10% it doesn't matter a damn bit.

So you're basically suggesting minority voter (especially black voter) disenfranchisement under the guise of white people know what's best...

Sounds familiar.
 
Oh no, Sanders tried to win the primary against her. What an impossible hurdle to overcome.

Look, we can acknowledge that Clinton had shortcomings as a candidate (lack of charisma, scandals, poor campaign strategy) while also acknowledging that fundamentally she was up against a candidate who promised the world to his voters (in both the primary and general) and a media who played double standards.

The media basically ignored and dismissed Bernie Sanders during the primary, though. You can't have it both ways.
 

trembli0s

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This thread is a perfect example of why a two party system like we have in the US is fundamentally broken. The exact same thing has happened in the GOP as well, people are more interested in lambasting their allies over policy differences than focusing on reality.
 

massoluk

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Are you kidding me? People in the DNC were talking garbage about Sanders and cheating for Hillary. And then you ask why Bernie didn't fight the narrative that it was rigged against him?

Really?
People really need to tell me why it is unfair for a lifetime supporter of Democrats who was really liked by all colleagues, getting the most votes in the primary, losing mostly in caucus to an independent runner that only became a Democrat just this one time to run for Presidency.
 

Valhelm

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May be reading too much into this but I find it interesting that Hillary and her editors thought the most important adjective to describe Trump is "unqualified"
 

pigeon

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citation needed

I'm actually really impressed at the memory editing that went on for Bernie supporters to literally forget the time Bernie's campaign exploited a security leak to steal Hillary's confidential voter information.

I knew you would need some kind of excuse but just denying it ever happened is Trump-level.
 

FiggyCal

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If he went scorched earth he would have lost even more.
Or even worse Clinton might have retaliated and burned the guy to a point he would have lasted in the general anyway.
He's no Trump, he can't weather scandals left and right.

I guess we'll never know. It's weird how we know for sure Hillary couldn't withstand scandals lelft and right yet that's still a go to for why Sanders couldn't have won. Who could have done it then if that's your standard?
 
I'm actually really impressed at the memory editing that went on for Bernie supporters to literally forget the time Bernie's campaign exploited a security leak to steal Hillary's confidential voter information.

I knew you would need some kind of excuse but just denying it ever happened is Trump-level.

no i actually genuinely did not know this lmao, my google searching before posting that turned up no results, can you give me a link to start then?
 

jtb

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May be reading too much into this but I find it interesting that Hillary and her editors thought the most important adjective to describe Trump is "unqualified"

It's a weak word, but that's because it's a catch-all for everything bad. Apparently being "unqualified" was the attack that polled the best over the campaign.
 

KingV

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I was always wondering why she never really picked Sanders proposals apart. She could've done that while agreeing with the goal, just disagreeing with the way to get there.

I am still not sure if she didn't do it because she didn't know how to properly dismantle Sanders proposals (which I think is likely, because I honestly never heard well educated critique of social democratic measures in the US. People just don't know how a system like that would work, so their criticism is based on a very limited understanding. This is true for media and politicians)
or maybe she would've been able to dismantle Sanders proposals, but didn't do it because the campaign thought it would hurt her.

I think her main critique of them was mostly "oh, how is that going to get past Congress?" But pointing that out, why even run for President because Hillarys proposals were equally dead in the water with a Republican Congress
 

Plumbob

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citation needed

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/documents-show-sanders-staffers-breached-clinton-voter-data

After Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign was disciplined by the Democratic National Committee for improperly accessing the Hillary Clinton campaign’s proprietary voter database, documents obtained and reviewed by NBC News appeared to show that at least four individuals affiliated with the Sanders campaign conducted searches and saved the Clinton campaign’s lists of potential voters over a period of more than 40 minutes.
 

Valhelm

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I guess we'll never know. It's weird how we know for sure Hillary couldn't withstand scandals lelft and right yet that's still a go to for why Sanders couldn't have won. Who could have done it then if that's your standard?

Sanders and Clinton had overlapping but considerably different faults. While the overwhelming majority of Trump voters would have voted just the same if the primaries had gone differently, it's reasonable to suggest that Bernie might have turned out higher margins in Rust Belt states that Hillary's campaign neglected.

Also, Bernie staffers clearly made some wrong and misguided decisions when they took liberties with Clinton campaign materials. Lying about this is shameful and holds us back from achieving the goals Bernie laid out.
 
Most of the people who demand that Clinton personally own 100% the blame of her loss are the same people who will dole out ready-made excuses for why Sanders lost the primaries (superdelegates! The establishment! DNC!) that other successful populist candidates had no problem overcoming.

Look, we can acknowledge that Clinton had shortcomings as a candidate (lack of charisma, scandals, poor campaign strategy) while also acknowledging that fundamentally she was up against a candidate who promised the world to his voters (in both the primary and general) and a media who played double standards. Ignoring external factors that doomed her candidacy is only going to doom the next Democratic nominee as well because we never gamed out how to deal with it. Bernie's 60% approval rating is looking hot for now until you realize Hillary was that popular before she ran too.

Arent the Dems also the people who are busy complaining about the electoral college trying to abolish it?

Whataboutism doesn't fly here if we actually give a shit about winning anything ever again.


If you truly think Bernie Bros didn't exist there's little point in engaging further. That's delusional on such a scale it's baffling

They were a caricature on the Internet for quite a while before they became a real thing.
 

Pandaman

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I'm actually really impressed at the memory editing that went on for Bernie supporters to literally forget the time Bernie's campaign exploited a security leak to steal Hillary's confidential voter information.

I knew you would need some kind of excuse but just denying it ever happened is Trump-level.
It's somewhat disingenuous to go from 'The Bernie campaign discovered a security leak and reported it, but one aide abused it in the 30 minutes the problem existed and that aide was fired' into 'the Bernie campaign hacked Clinton'

and by disingenuous I mean it's basically lying.
 

FiggyCal

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It's somewhat disingenuous to go from 'The Bernie campaign discovered a security leak and reported it, but one aide abused it in the 30 minutes the problem existed and that aide was fired' into 'the Bernie campaign hacked Clinton'

and by disingenuous I mean it's basically lying.

I was about to say the same thing. It wasn't handled great, but people make it sound like he personally hacked it himself or secretly scheming behind the scenes.
 

B-Dubs

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It's somewhat disingenuous to go from 'The Bernie campaign discovered a security leak and reported it, but one aide abused it in the 30 minutes the problem existed and that aide was fired' into 'the Bernie campaign hacked Clinton'

and by disingenuous I mean it's basically lying.

You mean four aides. Not one, four.


It wasn't just one guy being a dick. It was multiple aides. The campaign then said the DNC was being unfair and fundraised off their own aides breaking the rules.
 

MIMIC

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Fine, so talk to me about how someone working as an employee of the DNC was cheating.

So not only are you going to selectively misstate what I said in order to answer it, but you're going to pretend you don't know the answer either?

Pure and utter intellectual dishonesty.
 

pigeon

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It's somewhat disingenuous to go from 'The Bernie campaign discovered a security leak and reported it, but one aide abused it in the 30 minutes the problem existed and that aide was fired' into 'the Bernie campaign hacked Clinton'

and by disingenuous I mean it's basically lying.

It's somewhat disingenuous to say "one aide" to mean "the NATIONAL DATA DIRECTOR FOR BERNIE'S CAMPAIGN and his three employees."

And by disingenuous I mean it's complete bullshit and this is yet another example of sheer unwillingness to acknowledge the possibility of wrongdoing on the part of Sanders's campaign.
 

Matt

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So not only are you going to selectively misstate what I said in order to answer it, but you're going to pretend you don't know the answer either?

Pure and utter intellectual dishonesty.
I'm not doing any of that. I quoted you fully. Say what you wanted to say, I'll respond to it.
 

FiggyCal

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It's somewhat disingenuous to say "one aide" to mean "the NATIONAL DATA DIRECTOR FOR BERNIE'S CAMPAIGN and his three employees."

And by disingenuous I mean it's complete bullshit and this is yet another example of sheer unwillingness to acknowledge the possibility of wrongdoing on the part of Sanders's campaign.

Yeah. Both of those things are equally disingenuous. Shame on both of you guys.
 

ElFly

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while the accusation that some of Bernie's proposal were somewhat vague and not too detailed, the idea that they were all pie in the sky, unachievable dreams is insulting

other nations have socialized healthcare and free college; fixing pensions is harder but america could do way better, and private prisons should be done away with anyway

the democrats seem to be adopting single payer as a healthcare policy, so that makes the pony comparison right down imbecile. turns out the democrats are gonna be promising ponies too?
 

Abelard

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Same reason why it's never Bernie's fault he lost the primary, but rather Clinton's, black people not seeing the light, conspiracies, sabotage.

Folks don't like to admit the person they rooted for fucked up.

I can't speak for other Bernie supporters, but I also agree its Bernie's fault he lost the primary even though he was fighting an uphill battle like Obama. Still, if Obama could do it, Bernie could have as well even though the uphill battle should not have existed in the first place for either candidates. Heck even Trump was fighting an uphill battle and he won, so I agree within the system in which we exist (and agree to) Bernie lost fair and square.

Ultimately my point of view is that in every election there is bound to be scandals and fumbles for each candidate, things you can and cannot control. You have to look at your controllable. Both Bernie and Hillary had factors they could and could not control, but the controllables could have led to either of their victories. This is why Clinton needs to own her loss, as do her supporters and stop blaming everyone else.
 
Both campaigns were explicitly based out of the rural "WWC" as their primary demographic base. Clinton '08 was much more similar to Sanders '16 than it was to Clinton '16.

Bernie didnt start his campaign in the boonies, he started his campaign protesting wall street.

That umbrage didnt start in city hating districts out by the farms, its started within the cities themselves. Cause they're full of gross inequality.


Sure, they were willed into existence by Peter Pan magic. Delusional and nonsensical

No they were willed into existence by the lefts incessant need to fucking sabotage itself.

Russian propaganda affected people who take everything personally that they end up becoming the caricatures we create.
 
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