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Will The Bernie Sanders Marketing Campaign Be The Death Of The Left?


As I do now, occasionally, I look in at Salon webazine to look what the play-left is up to.  The answer is unsurprising, doing what the play left always does and has completed pretty much on the grounds that Eugene McCarthy introduced stunt candidacies into its present shape and Ralph Nader proved that they are a grotesquely irresponsible act of ego.  They are allowing Republicans.

Up these days is an invitation to tantrum by using Sophia A. McClennen, Bernie Sanders isn't always a sore loser: Our democracy is screwed until we repair the unfair regulations  that's extending the Bernie or Busters strains approximately alleged corruption sinking his campaign,  traces which i am sorry to mention Bernie Sanders is encouraging with his lawsuits that first rate-delegates aren't pledged delegates, and, apparently, not simplest that but wanting them apportioned on a winner-take-all foundation as opposed to the proportional basis that pledged delegates are offered within the Democratic celebration.   The closed number one trouble in preference to open primaries is getting used that's atypical because- Bernie Sanders received a variety of closed primary and caucus states, he and his supporters seem to forget about that, but, then, this isn't always about highbrow honesty it's approximately twisting slogans in any manner had to make it come out the way you need.

I am convinced that, contrary to the identify of her piece that Bernie Sanders is proving he is not simplest a sore loser but has the potential to act as a spoiler even as he broadcasts that he would never danger placing Donald Trump or Ted Cruz in office.   If he would not realize that is what he has been doing even as recently as this weekend, he is lots less politically savvy than i would constantly figured he turned into.  His persevered twisting and turning and churning over the policies of the manner as a way of looking to coerce high-quality delegates to flip for him even because it's obvious he can not do this has no other rationalization than that he's willing to do precisely that.

If he hasn't noticed, whenever he or Jeff Weaver or Tad Devine, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore or his other surrogates try this, it sets off the Bernie or Busters who will toughen and increase whatever they are saying into, frankly, stuff that sounds like the insane anti-Clinton stuff from the 1990s.  I cannot consider that this would preserve if the person on the pinnacle of his campaign would not want that to.  A responsible presidential candidate asking for the Democratic nomination would not be doing what Bernie Sanders is persevering with to do.

If Sanders blows this election for the Democrats he can have showed the worst case for why the left can't be trusted.   And i do not mean THAT HE can have completed THAT FOR THE DNC OR other status quo DEMOCRATS.  If he blows this election for Democrats he may have confirmed that even his left can't be relied on with the aid of the ones people whose rights and lives depend upon the defeat of the Republican-facist, company system.  He and his campaign could have shown us that we can not agree with the left and want a actual left that cares about the truth we live in in preference to the fantasies of the play left.

I've been a long term fan of Bernie Sanders because I concept he become not a member of the play left, His communicate has truly not been the standard bull shit that play-leftism, much of it issuing from mildly discontented teachers and people - specially the ones within the social sciences - whose task does not depend upon having a reference to actual fact.  Any such "left" is extra of a way of life declaration than it's far something actual.


However talk is cheap in comparison to offices won, legal guidelines modified and guidelines enacted.  Fact is real, posturing is simple.

I thought Bernie Sanders understood that triumphing an election meant something and making sure a person like Trump doesn't win way at least as an awful lot.  I'm no longer satisfied of that anymore.  He's going to ought to make some large adjustments if he's going to convince me that he's what he's bought himself as being.  Firing Weaver might be a very good way to start.  I can consider all too properly what kind of a prime of staff he'd make.

Sanders is now pandering for marketing campaign $$$$, which he gets to hold when he loses.
He announced over the weekend it'll be a "contested convention' because Clinton will want the fantastic delegates to clinch the nomination, consequently Sanders has grounds to complain on the floor, therefore maintain sending in $$$$ due to the fact he's going to contest all the primaries to the end.
First-rate. Contest them. However do not faux that gives you some end game wherein you win the nomination in a floor combat. Due to the fact a), this is now not going to manifest, and b), that gives you no legitimacy in any respect because the candidate, specially when you consider that your campaign has complained approximately the shortage of "democracy" inside the technique.
You want to erase all appearance of democracy, one character/one vote? Win at the convention using arcane regulations and making backroom deals for votes.
It is over. Sanders desires to lower back Clinton and go domestic. He is no much less a politician than she is.
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That Bernie Sanders hasn't been assisting Democratic candidates for other workplaces in any however some, selected instances has instead stunned me. I study a grievance with the aid of John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, stating that no longer handiest didn't Bernie Sanders assist him however that the Bernie Sanders citizens in big numbers did not vote for down ticket applicants.
This season i've study a number of vital memories about Sanders within the Vermont opportunity weekly, Seven Days. It is a great treatment to the adoration heaped on him inside the national, leftist press.
I still like Bernie Sanders however that residual of affection is speedy going for walks out. I suppose he came to consider too much in his personal PR and he went for some distance too long without effective challenges to him. I'd hate for him to turn into the identical type of contemptible spectacle as the submit-Senate Eugene McCarthy or the absolutely contemptible Ralph Nader but it is the road he's on.
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nicely, of route they're, that's why so many of them whine on-line approximately how unfair the primaries are ("undemocratic" is the brand new "My guy failed to win!"), and what a burden it is to should sign in with a celebration on the way to vote in that celebration's number one.
If all you want to do is vote for Bernie, you need to engage a minimum amount of effort to achieve this in closed number one states. In case you can not do this a lot, then you definitely are not critical, and probably won't be voting in November besides. Which belies Sanders' claim that he's started a movement, or is bringing new people in to the system.
How many Sanders supporters have said on line they may not vote for Clinton in November? This means that they're going to enroll in the majority of american citizens who don't vote. Yet they assume their refusal is exclusive, come what may.
I do not get it.
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