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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Blaming Sanders: Why Democratic Party Unity is Officially Impossible [View all]
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/03/blaming-sanders-why-democratic-party-unity-is-officially-impossible/Im not going to suggest that people shouldnt like Hillary Clinton if they adore her, and many do, but for her champions to continue the arrogant argument that she is anything more than a smug politician with a big stick, i.e., a cozy relationship with corporate America and the military industrial complex, is silly obfuscation. Such denial flies in the face of reality given Clintons attachment to and her unmovable faith in the neoliberalism of our age, which more-progressive thinkersnever mind the remnants of the Leftsee as problematic.
The would-be pragmatists, the nose-holders who have embraced the lesser-evil mantra in the panic to stop Trump, have either forgiven her sins and moved on or never saw the sinner in the first place. Importantly, these people are settled-in and at ease with what were once called, when I studied them in school, current events. As a mass they cling to the center like a life preserver. They have an abiding faith in the way things are now playing out, have easily overcome any tinge of doubt about U.S. imperialism and our terms of perpetual war (are we winning?), the environment, and rampant poverty and inequality, to name a few of the things Hillary Clinton abhors talking about or glides over like an ice skater.
...As for Bernie Sanders, some portray his thinking as reckless ideology, with a pejorative usage here based on the rise among self-satisfied Americans who cant distinguish between progressive policy and Hillary Clintons record. Or perhaps they can, but it doesnt bother them. The point is that many voters are content with the way things are now; any and all suggestions that the status quo ought to be altered are dismissed out-of-hand. Neoliberalism has been kind to many while raping many others. Sanders thinking is frightening to a wide swath of comfortable middle-class votersand not just Republicanswho have avoided the inherent disasters of recent policy decisions that have angered and outright economically ruined many in our country as well as large portions of the global population...Why, the usual power players, of course. They are Krugman, Feinstein, Reich, and others atop the pyramid. Great Pragmatists all. Believe me when I protest that none of these characters know poverty or oppression. If theyve known it at any time, theyve forgotten it by now.
...Stay in the thing, Bernie, for the hell of it. Clintons allies disrespect too many, take too much for granted, expect too many miracles, and act out too much like privileged children.
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I thought the complaint was that Hillary has already co-opted too much of Bernie's message?
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#102
The problem is you seem to think it's "obvious corruption" for Bernie to lose elections.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#70
As a matter of fact the way the voting has taken place has benefited BERNIE.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#86
Democrats shouldn't expect to "unite" with people who've never been Democrats in the first place.
baldguy
Jun 2016
#14
Then it's not up to Democrats to give him status in the Senate. Fair is fair, eh?
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#101
I mean his seniority. Only been a Dem a year. He's bottom of the ladder, right?
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#111
They've been generous to give him rank. They don't have to, if he fights past the campaign's end.
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#115
IT WOULD BE COMPLETELY HYPOCRITICAL FOR BERNIE TO ENDORSE AN AVOWED AND CAREER CORPORATIST
CorporatistNation
Jun 2016
#124
Got to love this poster. In this posters last paragraph, he/she suggests that Sanders stay in it
Trust Buster
Jun 2016
#5
If you've missed the outrageous behavior of the Sanders supporters on this site, then you have
Trust Buster
Jun 2016
#11
In solidarity with your posts. Well spoken representation for so many of us here.
JudyM
Jun 2016
#25
I don't want anything that Clinton and Ryan want to inflict on the country, tyvm
Doctor_J
Jun 2016
#13
I don't know about Krugman or some of the others that you describe as living atop something,
Tal Vez
Jun 2016
#43
Well, I did read that and I will have to read it again to understand it better.
Tal Vez
Jun 2016
#83
You'll opt for nothing then. Your fooling yourself if you think Hillary means progress.
BillZBubb
Jun 2016
#49
That hidden tape suggested that the Clintons do have some common ground with Ryan.
raging moderate
Jun 2016
#105
one argument I heard was that the Secretary of State isn't involved in foreign relations
MisterP
Jun 2016
#35
the Clintons very good at generating protectors who'll circle the wagons around them
MisterP
Jun 2016
#41
They got that from an International Business Times story that was full of holes.
creeksneakers2
Jun 2016
#87
All those that lost their homes in the housing crash don't know how good the
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#118
LOL. Of course not. Keep telling yourself that. The got $150,000,000 because
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#123
I've long noticed that Republicans always act like any election they lose is illegitimate.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#68
Hillary's taking millions in INCOME from TBTF banks that are corrupting our govt.
think
Jun 2016
#107
Terry Simons at Counterpunch has been urging Bernie to leave the Democrats and run Green Party
oberliner
Jun 2016
#112