2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Will Hillary stop evolving now? [View all]Buzz cook
(2,757 posts)What will Bernie supporters do if Clinton is elected?
1)Sit on their hands and try to stifle dissent as they did for most of Obama's two turns?
2)Throw shit from the sidelines without organizing opposition to the right, as they did during Bill Clinton's administration?
3)Pretend that the further right the current administration is the better a chance for a leftist in the next general election, so sit on their hands again?
4)Actually organize and fight to move Clinton to the left and beat back the right?
One of the reasons I support Clinton is I think 4 is slightly more possible. Though I am becoming less and less sure of this after reading so many nihilistic philippics by Bernie supporters.
And one of the reasons I don't support Sanders is because of the likelihood that his supporters will sit on their hands because "daddy" will take care of things and any complaints about his administration will be dismissed as either sore loserism or a failure to understand eleventy level chess.
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