Okay. Why don’t you just type my comments for me? I’ll watch as you argue both sides.
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Don’t you know? Bernie was probably on CP time, yeah, there was that
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uh huh. As I said, he has all the realism of an old testament prophet - funny that the ny daily news was the first paper to actually peek behind the rhetoric curtain and show there was no wizard (mixing my metaphors now, but I’m sure you get the point).
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I read the puff piece, and my mind is far from closed—that’s a description of your mind, Snookums.
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I can guarantee you the next election his supporters are going to be more important than the Democratic centrists defending their cushy useless lives. Change is coming if you open your eyes.
The difference between the Trump supporters and these young white male Sanders supporters (the “Bernie Bros”) is that they don’t see themselves as racist or sexist. And I don’t think they are in any overt sense (well, with the finger-waving, mansplaining that they do, they are certainly overtly sexist.) Instead it’s that subtle discrimination that people don’t even recognize in themselves. "You know, Jamal Washington doesn’t seem like a good fit for this company. I can’t quite put my finger on WHY…just seems…you know…a little “street.”
Thank you for this. The Berniacs ARE racist but it’s thinly veiled in a way to make themselves feel like their cause is noble enough to bypass that whole ugliness, ya know? The Berniacs don’t mind emulating “street” when it suits them. They don’t want to have to deal with the real world effects of it.
It’s like when I got into it with one of the Berniacs who post here regularly. I pointed out that the slogan “A future we can all believe in” rang hollow for some of us. He claimed that Sanders vision included all of us. Then I said, “Until it doesn’t.” Then I was treated to condescending vitriol that wavered between my being confused and being a part of the Establishment.
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sent to where they belong…the Republican party.
Yeah, thank god that the nation didn’t elect that Democratic corporatist whore Al Gore in 2000. That would have been a freaking disaster, amirite? Dude was indistinguishable from a Republican. He was just George W. Bush in tighter jeans LOL. Go Ralph!!! Feel the Bern!
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Puff piece? Not really. Since all you know how to do is throw stones, I doubt you have a chance of opening anybody to the low expectations embodied in Democratic establishment point of view.
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Let’s be honest.
Bernie is doing as well as he is because when voting started there were functionally two candidates in race, and he was/is promising a whole host of unicorns and magic pixie dust… Of course he’d “do well”.
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Um, you do know that the “next election” is the mid-term in 2018, right. Remember, the one that the “revolutionaries” manage to skip every election cycle. Theirs is an impotent roar every four years. Very tiresome.
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How about promising something more than warmed over Republican programs and calling it socialism?
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Nope; they’re gonna fade back onto the woodwork or, in this case, roll back onto FB and Instagram.
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You want to blame the voters because establishment Democrats are pussies unwilling to take a tough stand, but who in his right mind would ever come out and fight for our cowardly establishment Democrats hole up in their safe districts.
How 'bout Sanders stop promising me cake for breakfast, and when asked if he even knows how to bake a cake, we just get a shrug and told, “I’ll tell the bakers to figure it out.”
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So, I know and trained with Paul (i.e., I strongly support HRC and am getting tried of Sanders act) and well I don’t think this is a Sanders issue. Paul has had a very bad and frankly untreatable case of foot in mouth disease for the last 25 years…
He just can’t help himself…
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You are aware that there are three branches of government, right. Not just King Bernie decreeing socialist paradise in his star chamber.
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THIS is what I keep pointing to. If their great Prophet is filling a void that he supposedly claims “the People” want, why hasn’t he brought out his horde of followers before now? Why have so many states turned Red when he could have just held rallies to get the Berniacs to the polls to fight against - well, whatever it is that Sanders seems to be railing against today?
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Bingo.
You don’t seem the least bit interested in examining why the bulk of his support are Young White Males (or “Euro-Americans”, as I like to call them), and that he hasn’t been able to make any inroads with people of color. Why is he losing them by seventy percentage points or more.
Seriously. Why is that?
(I am seriously not being rhetorical here. I would like to hear from a Bernie supporter about this discrepancy. I have heard the Bernie Bro explanation on Twitter and Reddit – “Those colored folk just don’t know that they are voting against their own best interest, and me, being a young white male, has a better understanding of what their best interest is” – But you sound like a reasonably intelligent person. What’s your take on this?)
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What is interesting is while speaking at a rally in Knoxville iowa Sanders took credit for helping write the ACA as it is because he knew there was no way his “Medicare for all”, single payer plan had no chance of passing congress. He even said the ACA is good enough as far as it goes but we need to work toward his vision through his political revolution. (Some revolution, he has to the best of my knowledge only expressed support for three down ticket candidates).
So does his participation in the writing of the ACA put him in with the group referred to by dr Song?
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