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Bernie’s failures modulo DNC shennanigans, is really a failure of his movement rather than a personal failure of leadership. The movement could not gather as much mass as it needed. It thought its core grievances were more widely shared than they were.
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I can’t put a finger on it but hard core Bernie supporters seemed to assume like 2.5x political legitimacy than they actually had, in terms of the number of people they could be considered as speaking for. Like 20% presumed to be 51%.
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There was an assumed consensus in how they spoke to everybody else who self-classifies left of center. “Of course you agree with us about everything otherwise you’d be for the corrupt party amirite?” attitude I found grating. It’s possible to dislike the party AND be center-left.
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A weakness of the Bernie mob vs Trump mob was grievances focused on future rather than the past. “You’ve destroyed our future” from a 20-year-old seems like premature eager embrace of victimhood. “You destroyed our life in the last 25 years” from a 55 year old seems more real.
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Even if true, there’s a temptation among older people (like me, Warren guy) to wonder... how can you declare failure/foreclosed future before even trying. Perhaps unfair but that was my gut response.
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a lot of room in that % spread for working class people in Bernie’s coalition who do grocery budgeting down to the pennies, work multiple service jobs, rely on buses, have kids and elders to take care of, and oops specifically their polling places were closed/had 4 hour lines
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Recently heard Jane Mcalevey talk about the difference between organizing (gaining commitment to a platform and movement, and trust in leader/group) vs mobilizing (getting people to take action, like vote). May be some lessons for them in there as well. bit.ly/2REu6uw
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