2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This country will absolutely NOT elect a self-described socialist. Sanders would be slaughtered. [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)I never said it was your words.
But then you double down on the framing with the hyperbolic words and phrases like "as if he were some supernatural or some super-powerful avenging force" or "Are we meant to fondle your candidate? To partake of his essence, perhaps, that we might all ascend to the nirvana" and the ever popular "the meme likening Sanders to Christ".
It reminds me of the right wing meme about Obama.
Yes Obama was an outsider who promised us what we wanted to hear...but did little of it...did not close Gitmo, did not give us single payer, continued the Bush tax cuts, appointed Wall Street to cabinet positions, and we are still deeply involved in the middle east and now the Ukraine.
So the comparison with Bush is not about what he did but what he failed to do...He continued the Bush game and it gave outsiders a bad name.
But this time we have one that has a lifetime record to go buy, and that is good evidence that he will at least try to change the game, and that is all we can hope for.