Demcratic Challengers 11: Saving the Republic one voter at a time!

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Bernie is really bad at this

Shades of our current President. Just needed to throw a "You are fake news" in there.

[dxmnkd316]

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So why can't you start toward the left, and then work your way back towards a sort of center/left compromise, instead of always starting at the center and moving ever more rightward?

cause that's done great things over the years.

You can, I like Warren. I’ll be donning a full body condom and SCBA and voting for her tomorrow.

[dxmnkd316]

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Shades of our current President. Just needed to throw a "You are fake news" in there.

It’s only a few weeks away.

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Yeah, when it’s not completely disingenuous. There are certainly left critiques of Bernie.

Yeah, mainly from that tiny subset of hardline communists who think he's a moderate.

[trixR4kids]

The press is at fault for Bernie's inability to deal with an article that is not flattering in a professional way?
Hmm...very Trumpian answer.

The press is at fault for acting in bad faith to serve oligarchs. Him treating them with hostility is perfectly warranted. Saving our planet matters more than decorum.

[trixR4kids]

Yeah, mainly from that tiny subset of hardline communists who think he's a moderate.

Even if you don’t include them, that wasn’t really what I had in mind though that cohort does exist.

[First Time, Long Time]

The press is at fault for acting in bad faith to serve oligarchs. Him treating them with hostility is perfectly warranted. Saving our planet matters more than decorum.

Jesus ****ing Christ.

[dxmnkd316]

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Jesus ****ing Christ.

Holy ****ing ****

[Kepler]

Re: Demcratic Challengers 11: Saving the Republic one voter at a time!

I'm not sure that's true either. I think he's falling into the same fallacies we all do. He's not stepping back and evaluating Bernie as a politician because he's blinded by the fealty to his policy platform.

Bernie's policies are generally pretty good. Bernie as POTUS isn't good. Platform doesn't, or rather shouldn't, give you carte blanche to burn things to the ground like the current administration.

Compromise isn't four-letter word. It's reality.

I don't think Sanders is a Messiah and I don't think his platform is unassailable (it's far too conservative ). He is the best thing on offer with the best chance of winning and he is, through some Act of God, in the best position for the nomination, and that's pretty neat.

As for "burning things to the ground," the political realities in which we all operate would not allow that anyway, and the only thing Sanders is interested in burning is Crony Capitalism and that's already burning, we're just supposed to ignore that because rich people haven't been hurt.

The rhetoric surrounding Sanders is hysteria. It's "where da white women's wallets at?" Much of it in the media is driven by corporate paymasters, but that does not explain why loyal centrist Democrats are so eager to grab on to it. I get that having the political cliches of the last two generations challenged causes dissonance, but (1) we should evaluate those based on their track record in reversing the slide towards fascism, which is not good, and (2) this is a smart and knowledgeable crowd, and they shouldn't be swayed so easily by what is basically 2016 Russian trolling only this time from our own Plutes.

Bernie not gonna steal nationalize the cows in the North Forty. He's just gonna stop the Plutes from stealing your pension.

[Kepler]

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In your mind, yes — they are off limits. Anyone that dare suggest Bernie made a mistake might as well be advocating for 4+ more years or Trump

This is nonsense.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Re: Demcratic Challengers 11: Saving the Republic one voter at a time!

Beto is endorsing Biden? What was he promised lol.

[state of hockey]

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‘I’m Proud To Endorse Biden And So Are All Of You,’ Announces Pipe-Waving Amy Klobuchar https://t.co/OxAelOc04J pic.twitter.com/Rq0qeJk4pU

— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 2, 2020

[dxmnkd316]

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I don't think Sanders is a Messiah and I don't think his platform is unassailable (it's far too conservative ). He is the best thing on offer with the best chance of winning and he is, through some Act of God, in the best position for the nomination, and that's pretty neat.

As for "burning things to the ground," the political realities in which we all operate would not allow that anyway, and the only thing Sanders is interested in burning is Crony Capitalism and that's already burning, we're just supposed to ignore that because rich people haven't been hurt.

The rhetoric surrounding Sanders is hysteria. It's "where da white women's wallets at?" Much of it in the media is driven by corporate paymasters, but that does not explain why loyal centrist Democrats are so eager to grab on to it. I get that having the political cliches of the last two generations challenged causes dissonance, but (1) we should evaluate those based on their track record in reversing the slide towards fascism, which is not good, and (2) this is a smart and knowledgeable crowd, and they shouldn't be swayed so easily by what is basically 2016 Russian trolling only this time from our own Plutes.

Again, I suggest we BOTH evaluate these reports. You seem to dismiss them as the swamp plutes but somehow don’t give give time to consider that maybe the stories aren’t being written by plutes and sometimes, just maybe they are based in fact and the people reporting them are doing so in good faith.

It’s like this great conspiracy that somehow the rich are pulling individuals’ arms like a marionette driving their everyday actions. Plutes aren’t gods. They can drive broad policy but they aren’t controlling what the establishment investigative media is writing, not if it’s too good of a story. It’s nonsense. Imagine if you or I were in a situation at work and told to quash a bad environmental release or some other sort of situation that requires a moment of deep ethical consideration. Of course we’re going to do the right thing.

You should ask yourself “Why can we have ethics but journalists can’t?”

[Kepler]

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Yeah, mainly from that tiny subset of hardline communists who think he's a moderate.

Communists are obviously going to criticize Sanders because he's a Socialist. Socialism and Communism are as different from each other as Socialism is from Capitalism.

There are Socialist criticisms of Sanders that have to do with his implementations. The reason we don't see them in the media is because (1) Socialist voices are banned from the MSM since guess who owns it and (2) Sanders is the Leftmost peg in the national political landscape so criticisms would tend to be making the perfect the enemy of the good.

[Kepler]

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Again, I suggest we BOTH evaluate these reports. You seem to dismiss them as the swamp plutes but somehow don’t give give time to consider that maybe the stories aren’t being written by plutes and sometimes, just maybe they are based in fact and the people reporting them are doing so in good faith.

It’s like this great conspiracy that somehow the rich are pulling individuals’ arms like a marionette driving their everyday actions. Plutes aren’t gods. They can drive broad policy but they aren’t controlling what the establishment investigative media is writing, not if it’s too good of a story. It’s nonsense. Imagine if you or I were in a situation at work and told to quash a bad environmental release or some other sort of situation that requires a moment of deep ethical consideration. Of course we’re going to do the right thing.

You should ask yourself “Why can we have ethics but journalists can’t?”

I don't subscribe to the theory that there is a conscious conspiracy among Plutes. I mean, there actually are some who are directly and consciously working to brainwash the public (the Kochs flooding the public libraries with Ayn Rand's books for the last 40 years for example, rich lobbyists literally writing the regulations which are then applied to them, etc), but for the most part it's soft power and indirect influence. You don't want to be "that guy." You don't want to p-ss off your friends, or be thought naive and sophomoric at Rover's infamous Beltway Parties. You don't want to make that impression with corporate just before Performance Review. All the little things that pen people in unconsciously. What Marx called "the superstructure" and Gramsci called "cultural hegemony" or something more erotic in Italian.

It's not the Stonecutters.