Because the point here should be to ask real questions about what we’re gonna do differently next time. Deflecting away from our candidates’ failures is an attitude that leads to doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Not trying to deflect, but to remind everyone that the failures of the candidate and party are largely not policy-based. “We should have just gone left!” and other easy answers are tempting, but like Bernie and Corbyn, will not bring victory in and of themselves. And the enthusiasm for those answers is often enough to drown out any potential sober analysis, especially in a community as left-leaning as Lemmy.