I don’t like the whole “I won’t vote Hillary if she wins the nomination” stuff; you’d rather Trump or Cruz? Yecch. BUT. I always said, UNLESS the superdelegates rig the election.
But if we’re planning to engineer a social-media- and news-media-driven Howard Dean Scream moment, where you’re planning to announce that it’s over already and bum-rush us not-voting-for-the-right-candidate voters to the door, before we even get a chance to vote? Then fuck you.
I won’t vote for Trump or sit it out anyway, even if that happens. I’ve never done such a thing, and I won’t now.
But if you think I EVER forgot that bullcrap railroading of Howard Dean, or was unclear that it represented the party and media and corporate establishment seeing a threat to their interests (which was there because of his intent to look out for OUR interests, the people’s)?
No, we haven’t forgotten that.
Why the fuck do you people think there is a bloc of at least a couple of dozen MILLION Bernie Sanders voters voting as anti-establishment candidates in the first place? Why do you think there IS any anti-establishment vote? It’s because we see a corrupted, impenetrable, anti-democratic party elite, which looks after their power elite’s interests against ours, and uses dirty campaigning to do so. And Bernie’s millions are very savvy about propaganda techniques.
Might I gently suggest that you stop forcing the “it’s over” and past-tense “Bernie’s campaign WAS great” stuff down our throats, before the vote is actually taken? And if you think the math is that inexorable, then what are you so worried about in the first place? Believe me, you do NOT want people seeing an orchestrated pack-up-Bernie campaign in the media, which is painfully obviously trying to bum-rush Bernie AND a couple dozen million voters off the stage before they’re heard from at the ballot box. If you lose only a few million such voters, only a tenth of them, for the election, that is WAY more than enough to lose you an election, especially with GOP turnout like it is.
Beware of doing that. I know that saying “fuck the progressives, who’re they going to vote for?” and throwing them out like dishwater every four years is an ingrained habit.
Ingrained habits are bad, in politics. Ask Karl Rove 2008/2012.