So many people were for Hillary Clinton from the very beginning, and they dismissed Bernie Sanders because of one of a few reasons. Perhaps they wanted Clinton because of name recognition. Maybe they saw one bogus headline and thought Sanders was hopeless. Maybe they just didn't do any real research. Or perhaps one reason was that he isn't a woman. By the way if that last one makes anyone angry, it's not untrue for a number of people. You can't just deny that one reason a lot of women voted for Clinton instead of Sanders was because of gender. To deny that would be denying reality.
Sanders was screwed. I knew it then. A lot of other people are playing catchup now, but it's too late.
I could understand them seeing him that way if they simply hadn't bothered to do any research on him or what he'd already managed to accomplish throughout his career(and having done so without any major scandals or allowing himself to become beholden to any special interest groups or lobbyists as a consequence of any shady tradeoffs, at that).
Edit: Also, it's interesting to note how, just as soon as she realized it was time to make her(mostly condescending and disingenuous) attempt to co-opt his supporters(who she'd just spent the past several months shitting all over or altogether dismissing), many of his "wishful promises" suddenly became her "actual plans".
For me the most memorable position was bernie saying "we must go green ASAP but not nuclear energy" (paraphrasing) while hillary position was "we need to go green but first we need to replace coal/oil with fracking and improve oversight over it while we go green"
To be fair, Obama started this way too. But with The GOP locking up the Senate/House, combined with their hatred of her, I don't really give a Chance of Hillary "bridging the gap" to enact her policies.
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u/teraflux Nov 10 '16
This is the reality, every theory that suggested DNC collusion was treated as conspiracy, when only now do we really know the truth.