Re: Campaign 2016 - Primary season! Duck (questions) season!
Okay, which one of you USCHO lefties posted this article in dailykos?
Bernie Sanders is the new Martin Luther King
By boots5547
Tuesday Feb 23, 2016 · 10:58 AM EST
#lookingforabettertomorrow
"A bold statement I know, but hear me out. Like Martin Luther King, Bernie Sanders has a dream. Like Dr. King believed that if the people stood up they could change a hundred years of Jim Crow segregation and racial injustice. Bernie Sanders believes that if the people stand up they can change a hundred years of corruption and rigged economics in a very short period of time.
As a young man in the sixties Bernie was inspired by Dr. King, Bernie was a leader of his local CORE affiliate and fought for racial justice Bernie saw first hand the power of a righteous idea, he watched Dr. King change this society from the bottom up.
The people in power did not want Black people, or those who believed in our cause, to believe in Dr. King or his ideas. They said that Dr. King was trying to move too fast, that we all should just be patient and eventually they would give us what they had been refusing to give us for centuries. Those same people are now poisoning our minds with the idea that even though Bernie’s cause may sound just, it is in reality only a pipe dream that can never come true. They ask us; who is going to pay for these things? They tell us these ideas will never get through Congress. Does anyone think that when Martin Luther King started out that he had a detailed, step by step plan laid out? Does anyone think that Dr. king could tell you exactly how everything was going to get paid for? Does anyone think that Dr. King knew then that the United States Congress would approve the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act? I think not.
It all started with a dream, and the dream became a goal, and we all started down a path not knowing for sure where it would take us. It was our desire for change and the energy of the people that turned Dr. King’s dream into a reality.
Without hope for a better tomorrow people tend to languish as we see in our urban ghettos. But no matter what their background or circumstances people with hope for a better tomorrow tend thrive and prosper. But the power structure in this country has a vested interest in making us all feel there is no hope, that we are powerless, that we really can’t do anything to change the status quo.
Bernie says “enough is enough”. The rich have had their revolution, the Reagan revolution where they set the wheels in motion to take what little wealth the poor and middle class had accumulated. It is now time for a middle class revolution where we take back our fair share of wealth and attend to the needs of the poor and hungry.
Needs like, everyone being able to see a doctor when they need medical attention without having to wait until you can afford it.
Needs like, every child, regardless of their family’s income, knowing as he or she grows up that if they stay out of trouble and keep their grades up, they will be able to go to college and earn a degree, make something of themselves and break their family’s cycle of poverty. A thing like this could put an end to ghettos in a generation or two.
Can you imagine what a vibrant and healthy society we would have if everyone had a realistic hope of a better tomorrow? These things are a logical extension of Martin Luther King’s dream. These are the things that Bernie Sanders is fighting for. Bernie is the only politician that is willing to go to bat for real change for the better in the lives of the average American, all the others are only suggesting small baby steps that ultimately lead to no real change at all.
Do not be fooled by those that tell you that we can’t change the system. After all, this is our system as much as it is anyone’s We need to get behind this man and help him go as far as he can with his ideas of change, just like we did with Dr. King. I am sure that if Martin Luther King were alive today he would stand with Bernie Sanders 100%"
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/23/1489714/-Bernie-Sanders-is-the-new-Martin-Luther-King 
). Some simpletons still think you can run a Nixon in '68 campaign, where you run to the right in the primary but to the center in the general election. Apparently smart phones, the internet, and the 24 hour news cycle have yet to be invented. 
Here on planet Earth the things these guys have said and pledged to do in the debates and elsewhere are going to render them unelectable. Republican Jesus maybe could pull off this race, or keep enough Dems home by being non-threatening enough to sneak in. We aren't going to face Republican Jesus (which Kasich is trying to fill the role as). We're going to face Trump most likely, maybe Cruz and a longshot with Rubio if he ever gets around to winning a state.
