Discussion for article #245901
So those millions and millions will camp out on the Hill and force Congress to do such-and-such? Or what?
We heard after the 2008 election how all the Obama supporters would stay very involved, and could be called upon at any time to lobby Congress to help achieve Obama’s aims. How’d that work out?
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Call my cynical, but that’s not going to happen. Americans are apathetic and disgusted with politics. Just look at the midterm elections. I wish more people would vote. I wish more people would be involved, but the reality is that most Americans don’t care either way and won’t lift a finger to change things.
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“There’s a huge gap right now between Congress and the American people. What presidential leadership is about closing that gap,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt in a preview of an interview set to air Thursday night.
I’m not sure I see where he’s going with that. The only reason such a huge gap exists is gerrymandering and race (of Pres. Obama).
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And a President Bernie Sanders would close that gap?
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So calling for a Revolution at the same time that Barack Obama is President will “close the gap between Congress and the American people”?
If anything it is opening a gap between Bernie Sanders and those of us who think Barack Obama has been a very effective President.
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I’m afraid this man is starting to believe his own pr. Very dangerous.
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Fair enough, but will his campaign bring people into the political process beyond this one effort? History is littered with attempts to do what he is trying to do, but few of them have succeeded. (I’ve been there and I know from bitter experience.) This does not seem to be a year for a political revolution (then again, in February 1789, someone might have said the same thing about France). If Bernie succeeds in bringing people into the process, but not enough to get a Democrat elected in November, his effort will be not merely a noble failure, but a blow to democracy. Think about what President Trump, Cruz or Rubio would mean. The essential issue this year is simple: Getting the Democratic candidate in November. Not very inspiring, perhaps, but necessary.
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So the Independent that didn’t want to follow anyone – wants everyone to follow him. Next he’ll be bitching about money in campaign politics while taking in lots of it.
He would do well to just keep president Obama’s name out of his mouth entirely.
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Sen. Sanders should be aware that the Berniacs supporting him are expecting HIM to do the heavy lifting. By himself. Somehow Sanders is going to “make things happen.”
The senator isn’t being anywhere near realistic in this. But it IS going to drive a wedge between those of us who support President Obama/SoS Clinton.
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Sanders said advancing his own campaign promises would require mobilizing “millions and millions of people” to get into politics and engage with their government.
They’ll get in until Inauguration Day 2017 and won’t be seen or heard from again until 2020 and in lesser numbers then. That is what they do. They want respect but aren’t willing to do the work to earn it.
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I was told a few nights ago that the “future worth believing in” is colorblind. So according to the Berniacs, race doesn’t factor into politics. It just doesn’t.
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You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one
Dream on Bernie, but look what happened to Lennon for all his optimism
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It sounds a lot like “President Obama couldn’t overcome an entire political party coming off the rails and arguing about where the wreckage will land” but I will?
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Does he honestly believe he can do a better job than President Obama bring the congress and American people? This is why i’m so hesitant to support Sanders he’s beginning believe his own hype. I like Sanders but he has a superiority complex - his plans are not rooted in reality.
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Hillary’s listening as those words spill out.
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Yes, of course the Congress that vilifies President Obama and calls him and his policies socialist will be cooperative as all hell with an actual socialist.
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But you don’t understand.
“We The People” will rally around an actual socialist. And then ------- success.
/s
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And being apathetic they have no right to be disgusted with their government.
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This is a gift to Clinton. I’m sure her people will run with it.
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