2016 Postmortem

He did not generate the false impression in the press that there was anything in the emails or the entire false story repeated endlessly by the Media. He did not spend more than a year flogging the hype over Benghazi . He did not bend the voting systems in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and several other states to favor the GOP outcome we have now.

Bernie asked serious questions about genuine issues. Many of those same issues have turned up in the post-election research into voting trends on both parties. Yet you and others here and in the party hierarchy CANNOT get it through your heads that there are issues you did not answer which the voters seemed to take seriously.

You CANNOT blame Bernie nor the Democratic Left for the failure to get more votes. That defies logic and the facts on the ground. Hillary had weaknesses as a candidate which had nothing to do with Bernie's remarks and everything to do with the perception that she was not forthcoming about her ties to Wall Street. She has waffled on issues and has a dubious relationship to the fracking industry. She has a long and well documented history as a war hawk on the Middle East. Those are issues that drove voters away form her in the primaries, and I am certain they did in the GE as well.

Whining about Bernie is a fake drama and a distortion of the facts which you and the party need to deal with.

I voted for her in the GE and so did many in NC. We knew well who we thought would be the better President. We also know how the other party loves to cheat as they are trying to do now by denying, obstructing and obfuscating the count in NC Governor's race, along with the recount efforts in WI, MI,and PA.