In 1933, Hitler came to power despite having barely a third of the vote because the Communists categorically refused to join in a coalition government with the Social Democrats. Many of them hated the SD’s more than they did the Nazis, others were pure nihilists who fantasized that Nazi rule would incite the Revolution, still others just didn’t distinguish between the agenda of the Social Democrats and the NSDAP.
The Communists were, of course, rewarded for their ideological purity by being starved and worked to death, shot or gassed in concentration camps over the next few years. The lucky few who survived the war mostly ended up living inside the glorious worker’s paradise known as the German Democratic Republic.
It’s a recurring theme of history that whatever and wherever their ideology, the people at the leftmost end of a nation’s political spectrum hate the people to their immediate right far more than they do those to their furthest right, or at least see them as of a piece with those at the right most extreme, while those at the right are more often than not more than willing to join forces and save the internal purges until after the seizure of power.
I think he should have Susan Sarandon, Rosario Dawson, Jeff Weaver, and Tad Devine dress as Egyptian slaves and carry him into the convention on a litter like Cleopatra entering Rome.
Fuck Sanders, I want someone to do that for ME!
Also, thanks for this. I’m putting it in a text document to paste into Facebook under every “Hillary’s a corrupt so-and-so” that I see until November! How shall I provide attribution?
If this is true, (seems unlikely to me), The Sanders Campaign would be more well advised to call “Joe’s Passerine Birds Leasing” and arrange for a couple of dozen or so sparrows, finches and warblers to flutter around the podium and pluck out strands of his hair, to use as nesting material, during his speech.
This makes Sanders truly look like a fucking fool. How clueless is his campaign? Devine and Weaver are so incompetent they shouldn’t even be allowed to operate a numbers racket.
