2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wisconsin's largest LGBT group endorses Clinton. [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)And more about the complete lack of organization that the left of this country has. Without Bernie Sanders, what the fuck is there? Just a gaping void. Bernie Sanders has had to cobble all this together, mostly by himself, because there was simply no organized movement for left-wing ideas until he showed up. There was nothing. Nada. Jackshit. And whose fault is that? The fact that Sanders is even still in a position to win at this point (even if it's like an 8% chance right now) is miraculous - but it also speaks to the fact that there is a vast untapped market for progressive ideas but no movement to harness it until now.
The left keeps looking to some messianic political figure to save them and then cries when it predictably doesn't work out. Even when the candidate does half the work for them (and politicians really shouldn't be in the business of building movements by themselves, they should be moved by the movement), it's still the same. Hell, you could probably build a SuperPAC off small donations to identify, promote and fund progressive candidates both as primary challengers against conservative Democrats but in races where Repubs run unopposed. Even if you can't elect a Kshama Sawant in Louisiana or Texas, running politicians like that nationwide changes the narrative, gets the foot in the door, and slowly moves the OW left. But the professional left in this country doesn't have the vision or the drive to get any of this done.