Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Bernie was an unrealistic candidate. ...But so was someone else.

Bernie didn’t win the debates. He remained unelectable afterward. But he did beat Hillary Clinton. And he kneecapped the hell out of her ability to win the election.

He did kneecap her in a lot of ways. After Super-Tuesday, when he was done, he played for the Hail Mary and ground her down, piggybacked off of all the Republican attacks, so she took the same total BS from both the right and the self-described left. He did things like gutted her ability to make Trump's tax returns an issue the way Romney's had been, by refusing to release his own.

Hillary lost by little enough so that it's easy to find things done differently that might have won it. But Bernie and the third party vote that resulted from his BS are a big piece of it.

Was Hillary the Dem's best candidate? Probably not, but the only test we've got are the primary/caucus process. Interestingly, the person who has done the most to make sure that process sees no material change is Bernie, who may be the beneficiary of it's biases next time.