2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]R B Garr
(16,995 posts)That much is obvious. Anyone can read now and go back 30 years ago and apply all the corporatist, Third-Way name-calling and current trends to the past and call themselves smart.
It's revisionist history. All you have to do is look at the past elections and see what was actually used to influence voters, and that's what was reality. It just wasn't reality to say that 30 years ago, the average voter was going to say that appealing to corporations was a bad thing as is promoted now. It just didn't happen. The things you are describing are more textbook examples than reality AT THE TIME.
And my original post was that you were too pure to vote for Clinton in 1992. You supported that by your continued postings of your obvious retro "research." So back to my original post, if you were too pure then, and you're too pure now, it doesn't really matter. The fringe has always been there, and it hasn't stopped us.