When you’re that ticked at that many things, sometimes it’s a sign that the thing you’re maddest about is that you thought you knew what you were doing.
After 2008, the absolutely predominant feeling around this site was that Democrats (or at least Daily Kos) had finally figured out how to win an election. Why? Well, because, um, er Barack Obama got elected, that’s why, and it couldn’t have happened without a long list of things that Kossacks had gotten behind and pushed for… could it?
For you, Markos, 2008 had to seem like vindication of a huge number of things. For the far left, it was a release of inhibition about pushing a farther left agenda — after all, since we know how to win an election, why shouldn’t we now quit all this business with having to stay toward the center?
And it turns out, we didn’t know beans. Yes, it’s possible to nit-pick almost any part of Clinton’s campaign, kos’ pronouncements, the Sanders bid, the MSM, etc., etc., etc.. But, compared with the 2008 campaign, by the standards we thought we had, not a whole hell of a lot was done wrong. By what we thought we knew in 2009, we shoulda won this one. And we didn’t. And the sooner people get over needing to find scapegoats and griping that an extra percent of GOTV, or attention to different states, or… would have have made a difference, the sooner we can get around to hunting for the real causes, which may have zero to do with policy, election work, economics, classism, bigotry, etc. (see this for a bit of out of the box possibility)
When you’re mad at everything, the odds are that the thing you’re most certain of is the one thing you don’t want to look at. In this case, it’s “we knew what we were doing”. It looks to have applied to a high proportion of the users on this site — yeah, me too — so at least you’re not alone, Markos.