Meanwhile, outside of the activist base, nobody cares. They are voting for Hillary. They have already made up their minds. But please, proceed with your efforts to pull off an upset. It could happen. You never know. You never know.
Nah, it can’t happen. And we all know it. Hillary is going to be President. This site will spend the next 4-8 years screaming at her just like it has spent the last 6 ½ years screaming at Obama. And it will be so wonderful, because they won’t be spending the next 4-8 years screaming at a Trump or a Rubio or any of the other nightmare candidates on the right.
Look, a visionary like Sanders is never going to win the nomination. It’s never going to happen. But what will happen. What has happened, is that visionary candidates push the party toward progress and that pushes the candidates who can win the nomination toward progress. The candidates who can win are always going to be 5 to 10 years behind the visionaries.
I know that most of you don’t feel this way… but I am perfectly fine with that. 5 to 10 years from now someone who is where Sanders is now is going to be the nominee. And 5 to 10 years from then someone who makes Sanders look like Hillary will be the nominee.
And I think of the things Obama evolved on over the last term and a half and imagine what Hillary is going to end up evolving on in the next 4-8 years. Legalized Pot? I know it doesn’t fit the messiah narrative that everyone wants to believe in when they support a candidate, but it’s real progress and I’ll take real progress over the fantasies of the second coming of FDR any day.