2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Democratic Party never fails to try and succeed at shooting itself in the foot.
With the GOP imploding, and establishment members of the GOP publicly stating that they are in favor of a brokered convention, because if Trump wins, the party they know will be destroyed and therefore, exist no more anyway, 2016 should have been a cakewalk. So with the White House, the Congress and the SCOTUS all up for grabs, and one party imploding, many Dems here seem to be saying, "Hey I want some of that too!!! I want to destroy my party too!!!."
The sheer volume of anti-Hillary hate threads over the slightest miscue has reached Bush Deranged Syndrome, and Obama Deranged Syndrome proportions. When you click on DU-Primaries and just about every thread on Page 1 is some new Hillary Done It!!! and you are pounding away at your 10th Anti-Hillary post within the hour, than just maybe it's time for you to step away from the keyboard. Now, I can hear the heads exploding coming through the monitor.
Now I'm sure that within 5 minutes of me posting this, someone here will say, "If Hillary's the nominee than the Democratic Party deserves to die" and whomever you are have a right to your opinion. But just remember that when January 20, 2017 rolls around and your party is on the sidelines watching President Trump being sworn in. You won't have your Universal Healthcare, your Free College, no jobs bill, no infrastructure plan, Citizen's United will still allow corporations to make unlimited campaign contributions because it's Free Speech, and Wall Street will still be on Wall Street.
Paul Ryan will have a bill on President Trump's desk to scrap Social Security and Medicare as we currently know it and he'll make President Trump sign it; and another bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Mitch McConnell will have a short list of choices for Mr. Trump as to who his next Supreme Court Justice will be, and Trump the no-nothing will chose one. Meanwhile, the Democratic party and in particular the people here at DU, will be scratching their heads wondering,"What Happened!!!" because they can never resist the temptation, to make the perfect, the enemy of the good.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)that 'my' party only cares about how I vote. You make sure to have a lovely evening.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)PonyUp
(1,680 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)A lot of us feel that the party is busy destroying itself by putting up such a flawed candidate with enough baggage to founder a container ship.