Mark Blyth and Wendy Schiller – Election 2016: What Happened and Why?

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1. Wendy appears irrelevant, annoying, noisy; nothing but a boring cliche.
2. Dr. Schiller, outside the world of politics are phenomena like climate change that have stringent dynamics not waiting for one country's particular election cycle. Humanity is bumping up against the rigid surface of how it now has global effects. Peer-reviewed climate research recently coming out and reviewed positively by people like Dr. Michael Mann at Penn State, indicates that the next few years may be crucial to human survival.
3. Amazing how little they discussed and properly perceived Bernie Sanders and the huge numbers of supporters at his rallies throughout the country despite the almost non-existent media coverage, the very likely voter disenfranchisement in various states, including the prominent Arizona and New York. Bernie Sanders has basically for decades been talking about what Blyth has only recently been discussing, albeit beautifully, I would expect he'd find in Sanders at the very least a rare politician to throw his support toward, even if he has, as an expert would and should, valid criticisms. Let alone Shiller, her clueless dismissal of Sanders et al entirely is the problem witnessed among almost all Clintonites, that blithe ignorance of ignorance itself, to be tactlessly blunt but honest. Though polls are rarely to be trusted, there were numerous polls and averages of polls that consistently showed more supported Sanders and a win over Trump far in excess of Clinton. They could at least have discussed why the DNC undercut Sanders as proven in the Wikileaks release of Podesta's emails and that the typical Clinton voter did not delve deeper into Sanders and his supporters' values. But look now what Sanders and his new progressives have done, rather than give up, he and thousands of others began and continue to grow and work, as these speakers suggest, at more local levels, via "Our Revolution" (ourrevolution dot com).
4. As a lifelong Democrat, I can see that professor Schiller is in denial and at odds with the facts, like so many Clinton supporters. She was a terrible candidate.
5. Wendy is a poly.scientist (what a term!) but doesn't understand much about economy.
6. What an annoying 'know it all' woman!
7. less than two months on most of Schiller's predictions and postulations have turned out to be categorically false.
8. is it just me or did Wendy Schiller seem a bit uncomfortable with and dismissive of Mark Blyth's points? Could kind of reinforce Jimmy Dore's idea that mainstream democrats hate it when others are more left than they themselves are.....
9. Mark is right. She's pretty typical of the mainstream Democrats. In utter denial of how much serious trouble the Democrats are in. The Clinton & Obama camp are STILL in denial about the fact that they lost the Bernie faction because they are too corporate friendly. How do you remain this clueless for this long? Unbelievable. If the Democrats don't get the corporate Democrats out of the way, and let the Bernie faction have real power and new blood, they are OVER. You really don't get how on our ass the working class is. She strikes me as somewhat clueless.
10. This woman sounds like she's auditioning for MSNBC. Clinton WON, but that brings the legitimacy of the election so she pushes the same line as Maddow.
11. Better late than never but I found this Watkins Institute discussion because of a recent Jimmy Dore segment and I must admit that I am glad that I never had to take a class with this bimbo, Schiller ! I have an advanced degree and am by NO means even close to poverty and I voted for Trump ! Why, because I did not want nuclear war with Russia ! And, I did not want to be humiliated by the first woman president of the U.S.A. to be a hypocritical liar, mocked by most of the intelligent "deplorables" of the world
12. Very useful discussion thank you! Don't you hate it when people shamelessly use their cell phones as if nothing else is happening around them . I meant professor Blyth.
13. @25:00
    http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-we-will-not-survive-trump
    
    Not everyone "somehow" made it through Reagan's presidency.
14. Is anyone else disturbed that a student calmly asked why they should even engage others in debate? Frankly, I want to write a bunch of mean things and swear about it... But I'm running into this a lot, trying to engage people at random, many people would rather try to shut conversations down with mean words rather than actually provide arguments. Where is this coming from? Why do people think this is okay?
15. These commentators are incredibly biased. Neither one has a clue. Hillary IS corrupt and she, thankfully, is not President. The ignorance of Clinton crimes is appalling. Clinton's guilt in making classified information available to enemies of the United States should be well-known AND accepted. It was more than obvious from testimony from James Comey, when he was considered the Democrats’ friend.
    
    Furthermore, what does this woman think, that THEIR values are better than those of middle America? What arrogance! And racism? There IS no racism on Trump's side among the overwhelming majority of those who supported him.
    
    These so-called academics are shills for leftist/communist propaganda. This woman knows NOTHING about human nature which the Founding Fathers obviously did! Their purpose was to prevent tyranny, whether it was tyranny from a man, woman or mob—or even States with illegals, immigrants, dead people and felons voting!
    
    So, for the record…the Founders of the United States and its Constitution got it right! They got EVERYTHING just right.
16. She is so intensely patronising, repeating to a group of students to simply vote, as of that would fix anything on its own without attempting to impart any facts.
17. 35:42, Yup... That's it right there. Democrats have failed us. Republicans have failed us. There's no left and right anymore, just corporatist parties bending over for different rich people. I hope both parties implode after this election.
18. Damn it, Wendy. It wasn't because of the negative vitriol regarding HRC, it was the fact that she represented more of the same non-incremental progressive change, at a time when we need more far sweeping positive change, than ever.
19. Lady, I like your spirit but independents and millennials came out in droves for Bernie. Of course he would have won! By several landslides!
20. Huey Long did not exploit racism. Schiller is simply wrong.