Are you suggesting you don’t maintain a blind devotion to Bernie (or as I believe you call him, “Dad”)?

And particularly acute among the Bernie cult on this site.

The fact that the popular vote doesn’t mean shit isn’t an indictment of Hillary Clinton - it’s an indictment of our country.

I would like to think this post is tongue in cheek but unfortunately I think it’s how most Splinter editors and commenters actually think.

And yet here you are continuing the argument. Forgive me for waiting four days to shed some light on your obvious misogyny - I had better things to do with my weekend.

You seem like a very happy person. Enjoy your unpleasant life.

No point in voting without first demanding legitimate democratic electoral institutions.

There’s only so much you can strategize against blatant voter suppression, foreign interference, and electoral institutions that are weighted to give your opponent a boost.

Because our electoral institutions are blatantly undemocratic.

You’re not wrong, but it’s external to the very obvious issue your graph points out: More people voted for Clinton than voted for Trump, yet he sits in office. That’s a clear failure of our institutions regardless of who else you can/can’t get to turn out to vote.

You’re right. But Chuck Schumer also wasn’t the Clinton campaign manager (he was and still is wrong about that and much else though).

Agree with all of the above.

Again the tautological fallback of “She sucks because I think she sucks and that’s why she lost” without actually reconciling with the facts. Such lazy thinking.

Honestly, no, I don’t think rallying in Wisconsin would have made a bit of difference, since it’s not like there was anyone in Milwaukee or Madison who would have voted for her but then voted for Trump because they were salty that she didn’t hold a rally in their city. That’s just not how it works in practice. If I…

You’re making the very Trumpian mistake of “Because I personally haven’t heard of it, no one has heard of it and clearly no one is talking about it.”

I haven’t seen this much lazy thinking and eager acceptance of easy false solutions since the last Trump rally.

It must be so easy to glide through life accepting simple answers like “Hillary sucks” as the reason things happen rather than confronting the very real effects of voter suppression, foreign intervention, and broken democratic institutions.

You’re radically overstating the power of holding a rally or two and willfully ignoring the effects of voter suppression.

I’d like to introduce you to House Resolution 1. And the National Popular Vote, approved by many Democratic legislators and governors. And a bill to combat purges and voter suppression. See also: The endorsement of these things by party leadership.

“Refused to deal with?” What, exactly, do you suggest the party have done when the state was run by a Republican unified government whose explicit agenda was voter suppression? Do you think if the Clinton campaign just asked nicely that Republicans would have let black people vote after all? What kind of magical…