2016 Postmortem

Yeah the Stein voters and non voters are pretty dumb (especially since Hillary is NATURALLY progressive and the Clintons only pandered to the center-right because that was the only way to win, because my faction doesn't like voting for people who doesn't make them feel tingles up the leg), but being angry at them, even rightfully so, won't get them to vote for Democrats. This has been a problem going back 40 years, and it's a massive chicken and egg problem
(Progressives (or at least too many of them) don't vote which makes Dems not support candidates that will appeal to progressives who don't vote, which causes progressives to not vote).

The fact that there was a progressive on the ballot this year (Hillary basically was to the left of the median between Obama and Bernie, and that platform would have been Mondale'd or McGoverned 30-40 years ago, this year, she won the pop vote by 2.5+m and was cheated out of the electoral vote, running as a woman, and a woman the Right hates to the point they'd vote for anyone with a R to keep her out, and a woman who herself admits she's better at running things than running *for* things) is irrelevant because Hillary didn't appeal to people's feels enough. Unfortunately, in the voting booth, feels trump reals, on both sides of the aisle.