2016 Postmortem

You may recall Sanders only ran because the efforts to get Elizabeth Warren into the race failed.

At his age, and given what he stands/stood for all these years, Sanders didn't have a lot to lose. There was clearly anger boiling among the people and not all of them thought that it was Hillary's turn, no matter what the establishment, across the board, figured. So he ran, and like Perot (and NOT like Nader) was running FOR something, not against.

But the anger and discontent was not generated or orchestrated by Sanders in the least. An experienced politician he quickly learned that his positions resonated with lots of Americans and that he really didn't have to "evolve" to fit in with the latest beliefs pushed by the MSM and Goldman Sachs.

So, he may be denied the nomination, largely because a lot of people know HRC's name and she's been around for a long, long time. Most people are more willing to go with what they know and facing a choice between someone who's familiar to them and someone totally out of the blue and especially someone opposed by every segment of the Establishment, it isn't hard to see why Sanders trails by those three million votes everyone likes to brag about. Another way of looking at it, of course, is that the odds on favorite of every established group and politician in the Democratic Party is ONLY that far ahead of the balding old Jew from Brooklyn via Burlington.

So, if he finally goes down to defeat then all of his supporters will just grin and shake hands, like kids after a Little League game, and unite against the orange headed foe.

Most likely not.

If Sanders people were following him the way the Clinton people follow her that might happen. As it happens, though, that is not the case. Fracking, to us, is not a political issue. Flint is not a disaster that is going to be forgotten after November 8. Assassinations in Honduras are not going to be written off, like Kissenger can ignore Viet Nam, or Albright can view the death of thousands of kids as acceptable, and so on and so forth, endlessly.

This will not be forgotten, even if Sanders is sent back to Vermont. To many of us the choice between Trump or Clinton is not really much more than voting for the lesser of evils. The only difference is that now lots of people have woken up to the fact that it doesn't matter.

That the game is rigged.

That the rich and powerful have already won.

What happens next? I don't know but I'll lay in a whole bunch of dip and potato chips after I go voting down ticket.