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YouDig's Journal"What is most important is not whether Hillary or Bernie becomes the nominee."
"What is most important is making sure that Donald Trump does not become president"
Spoken just now by Bernie.
I couldn't agree more. Trump sealing the deal tonight makes all this Hillary-Bernie stuff seem trivial.
Wow, it's really going to be Trump.
Yeah, we sorta knew this was coming, but this is insane.
I've never seen so many creative ways to describe "losing" as "winning" and "winning" as "losing".
I have to hand it to the Bernie campaign and his supporters. Really no stone has been left unturned in the attempt to switch the meanings of two words that I thought were pretty well settled.
Some of the nutty ultra-Bernie online supporters are really entertaining.
And I don't mean that in a snarky way. Well, maybe a little. But people like HA Goodman and the "sane progressive" woman on YouTube are genuinely entertaining. I kinda can't look away.
I think "sane progressive" is my favorite. I've watched like 10 of her videos, and in a way it's a work of art. They have a beginning and a middle and and end, and there's a crescendo of anger and craziness and then it goes totally off the rails. Good stuff.
In a way, being a nutty pro-Bernie commentator online is a highly competitive field. We all know there are a lot of them. But the cream rises to the top.
Bernie's superdelegate theory makes no sense at all.
He's complaining about how in Washington he won the caucus by a huge margin but the superdelegates are still going for Hillary. Here's the problem with that line of thinking.
If all the SDs vote the way their state went, Bernie loses.
If all the SDs vote for whoever got more pledged delegates nationwide, Bernie loses.
If all the SDs vote for whoever got more popular votes, Bernie loses.
If all the SDs vote for whoever they think is a better candidate, Bernie loses.
In other words, any consistent theory of how superdelegates "should" vote results in Hillary winning. So it seems to me, what he's really trying to say is that delegates from states that he won should respect the voters of their state, but delegates from states he lost shouldn't.
Explaining to your child why you let Trump become president.
Kid: So people didn't always live in tents and mud huts?
Parent: No, before Trump people had homes. And there were stores where you could buy food, you didn't have to forage for nuts and berries.
K: So why did Trump come?
P: People voted for him, and not enough people voted to stop him.
K: You voted to stop him, right dad?
P: Er, no. You see, the other candidate was Clinton, and she only wanted a minimum wage of $12, but a lot of us wanted $15.
K: So what is the minimum wage now?
P: Now there is no minimum wage.
K: Isn't $12 better than $0?
P: Don't be silly, all that matters is $15. Think of it this way. You know how if you're playing ball, and it's not going just the way you want, you take the ball and run home so nobody gets to have any fun?
K: I stopped doing that when I turned 11. And this isn't some stupid game.
P: Well, it was kind of a game back then. Besides, we needed everything to burn down so that the revolution would come.
K: What's the revolution?
P: That's when the people rise up and overthrow the oligarchs.
K: What are the oligarchs?
P: You know the Joneses over there? They used to be oligarchs. Mr Jones used to have a job doing medical research for Big Pharma and had a nice house and a fancy car. And now he's living in a tent and starving like everyone else. Revolution!
K: This revolution sucks. I don't like living in a tent.
P: Don't be so ungrateful. Before the revolution, we had a slightly smaller house than the Joneses. Now we have the same size tent. Everyone is equal now.
K: But my sister is sick, and she's going to die because there's no medicine.
P: And I feel bad about that. But before the revolution, there was Obamacare, which made profits for greedy insurance companies.
K: But with Obamacare my sister would be able to see a doctor.
P: You're missing the point, son. It wasn't single payer, so it had to be burned down.
K: But now we have nothing, and my sister is going to die!
P: Stop being so negative. We have the revolution. Isn't it glorius?
Apparently a lot of Sanders supporters here are concerned that Trump will beat Hillary.
As a Hillary supporter, I am scared of that too. It's not likely, the odds are in her favor, but the prospect of a Trump presidency is so frightening that even the 25% chance that the odds makers have for it is unsettling.
If you're worried, here's what you can do to help prevent it.
1) Obviously, vote for Hillary in November.
2) Contribute and/or volunteer for her campaign.
3) Talk to everyone you know about how important it is to elect Hillary and prevent Trump from winning.
Quick list of differences between the Dems and the GOP.
Looks like "there's no difference between the parties" is becoming a popular talking point. Because Hillary is so bad, I guess, she might as well be a Republican.
So let's list some of the many big differences.
The GOP wants to deport 10 million people. The Dems want a path to citizenship.
The GOP wants a lower/non-existent minimum wage. The Dems want to raise it.
The GOP thinks climate change is a hoax. The Dems want to combat it.
The GOP wants to break up unions. The Dems want to protect them.
The GOP wants to cut taxes on the rich. The Dems want to increase them.
The GOP wants to criminalize abortion. The Dems want to protect choice.
The list goes on. Feel free to add more.
The difference between that parties are enormous, and it's not just a few issues, it's all of them. Especially with Trump/Cruz as the GOP nominee.
You know who picked Hillary? The voters.
Good god, what I'm reading here. It wasn't the "oligarchs" or the overlords or the power elite or Wall Street or the "establishment" or whatever else. It wasn't voter fraud, and it wasn't stupid people voting against their best interest.
It was the voters of the Democratic Party. We had two good candidates, both got plenty of chances to make their case, everyone knew what they stood for, what they had done in the past, what their qualifications were, and what their policies are for the future. Solid arguments can and were made in favor of either one.
And, with all that, the voters chose Hillary.
And by the way, they really aren't that far apart from each other compared to the GOP. Both want to raise the minimum wage, just Bernie wants it a little higher. The GOP wants it lower. Both want universal healthcare, just Bernie wants it single payer, and Hillary wants to expand on Obamacare. The GOP wants to go back to a pure private system. And issue after issue it's like that.
$27...
Is what I spent on the bottle of Pinot Noir I'm gonna open to celebrate Hillary's yuuuge victories tonight.
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