2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If Sanders was such a great choice, his fans wouldn't have to resort to lies and conspiracy theories [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... in the same election when Corporate Dems were voted down. Most Americans WANT what the corporate media and other branches of corporate power structure keep trying to depict as "small number" "far left", which is a BS meme trying to get a majority of the American people from feeling they have power to kick out the 1% serving "centrists" (in reality CORPORATIST) pols that have been screwing them for decades to reward the elites and redistribute wealth to the top.
Those propositions that passed in red states like Alaska, Oklahoma, and Arkansas in an election where DNC "led" Democrats got screwed in most places where they tried to sell the Third Way BS is an illustration of what is wrong with a party that can't differentiate itself from the corporate part of the Republican party. Bernie not only appeals to those who want minimum wage, but so many other stances like getting rid of college debt, raising taxes on the rich, etc. that the corporate power hates, but which most Americans want and want to try to find a way to make it sound like Americans need the corporate elements to help them win, when THEY DON'T, and in fact when they try to to do that, they alienate more voters in today's populace than they attract, which is WHY they lost so much in last election.
The far right has been energized by support from the corporate sector (as I noted the Tea Party was created by it), because they champion issues that the corporate sector don't care if they are passed or not passed. As I noted in the previous post, Americans don't like pols being bought by the 1%ers. Even right wingers complain about how the banks own Barack Obama and his administration (and they are right about his justice department which has done SHIT in trying to make any banksters accountable for the 2008 financial disaster) as a symptom of this. But the left this time around and many independents and Republicans want some changes in not just the social issues but on financial issues that the corporate sector is trying to marginalize Bernie who is leading on these issues, which I would argue why many polls now show him beating someone like Trump in greater numbers than Clinton does.
Sorry, but votes, and polls don't support your characterization of what is the "far left". You need links or other more definitive details to back up your assertion, which is more of an echo of the memes that corporate media is putting out to us.