News Flash! The Establishment wants Bernie to quit!
I know that that'll shock most of you but there it is all the same. Per this article in Politico, the VSP of the Democratic Party think Bernie should drop out somewhere between now and before the convention in order to not hurt Hillary.
“Bernie made his point,” added one Colorado Democrat. “It's time to bring the party back together. The longer he waits, the more damage he does. The question is whether or not he cares. The rest of us do.”
“Bernie made his point,” added one Colorado Democrat. “It's time to bring the party back together. The longer he waits, the more damage he does. The question is whether or not he cares. The rest of us do.”
I have to believe that Bernie clearly did not make his point or that insider would not have said that. The point is that it isn't Bernie doing damage to the party. It's Hillary and the DNC and... well... pretty much everyone but Bernie. It isn't Bernie pushing TPP and TPIP. It isn't Bernie letting Wall Street walk away from it's crimes and, in fact, repeat them. It isn't Bernie who's run the dirtiest Democratic campaign I can personally remember. It isn't Bernie who lies with virtually every statement he makes.
Clearly Bernie has not made his point. That's OK though... we'll make it for him.
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Interesting
that there is not one single named source in this report - typical insidery Politico BS
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
yeah, right, and that's why in one of the German TV studios
in Washington DC, who produce all the news for the German audience out of the US to Germany, tell their "little employees" to read always politico, because they are the insiders and know it all. Now you know where the "cowardice" in the German media is coming from...
That would explain a lot of things! *würg*
[For non-German readers: *würg* is German for *gag* in the comics onomatopoeia sense of “feels nauseated”]
Bernie is disinclined to acquiesce to their request...
Not that they'll outright SAY it to his face.
They'll just hide behind their pet reporters and sharpen their knives...
Seriously, Establishment Politicians... If you have something to say, goddamn say it, and OWN it.
Your cowardice is pathetic.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Hmmppphhh
No, sir, the rest of us care about democracy.
Does he realize or care that he (and the rest) are saying that they want to disenfranchise 19 states?
I wonder if there is enough deodorant to go around in DC. They seem to be sweating a lot about a guy "who can't win."
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
In the past ...
... the fat cats and the power brokers had all the power to stop or start a campaign.
They're using the same strategies now but without the clout and wondering why it's not working.
Yeah, they still need to get the point.
Beat in the USA.
$Hillary would be WORSE than Trump as president.
There, I said it - feel free to disagree.
It's a big club...and you ain't in it!
Disagree
You really think it would be better to have a president who:
--Is an outspoken racist, sexist and xenophobe;
--Conflates anti-Americanism with one major world religion;
--Deliberately stokes hatred and violent impulses;
-- Reacts to criticism by threatening the critic with anything from a lawsuit to bodily harm;
--Expresses open contempt for "losers," i.e., anyone who might need the social safety net;
--Has never held public office;
--Has gone bankrupt four times;
--Was an admirer and associate of the late Roy Cohn;
--Is boundlessly ignorant;
--Is essentially a showman who will say anything, however false or absurd, to gain attention and applause ("Hispanics love me!');
--Occasionally says something audacious and true;
--Has the cultivated knack to entrance the simpleminded ("It's on his hat!");
--Shows all the symptoms of sociopathy, i.e., no conscience, no principles, and no concern for even one person other than himself;
--Having no principles, might do or attempt to do anything.
Compared to that:
Hillary is just another public face on the same old system.
Neither one of them is a good choice, but she represents continuing devolution, with some chance to build a third party, as the public is now waking up.
He represents meltdown.
I would counsel if worst comes to worst, against giving in to our perfectly natural desire to "teach a lesson" to the D party operatives (who have already shown themselves incapable of learning), and instead continue to lay groundwork for progressive renewal.
But these are worse-case scenarios. Go Bernie!
Euterpe2
Sad but true
While my family suffered a fair bit during the last round of western fascism, my Jewish friends' families suffered immeasurably more. I think my conscience will be made significantly cleaner by keeping Ivanka's Boyfriend out of the White House than by not voting for Hellary.
So if that's what it takes, I will do it. But I'm going to keep fighting for another choice for as long as I can. If it doesn't materialise, then I will reconsider.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
I could argue that
not definitively, but look at it this way. Trump would be incompetent and hated by both Democrats and Republicans. He would spend most of his time bumbling around and the likely worst outcome is how he'd fan the flames of racists and whatnot... but those people wouldn't exactly stop being racists with Bernie in the office.
Hillary, on the other hand, is dangerously competent and would likely achieve her goals. She is the chosen token of the wealthy elite and would absolutely deliver on what they wanted.
So with Trump you have kind of a grab bag of who knows. With Hillary it's a certainty of evil.
Note that I won't vote for either because I refuse to put my endorsement on the slaughter of Muslims, global warming, and all the rest. So my vote goes to Stein.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
I agree, but won't vote for either
as I think the Madam will have an unpredictable administration, based on past inconsistent positions, and it's unlikely she will beat Trump anyway.
I believe there will be, in the next 5 years, problems of such magnitude that nothing can be solved let alone addressed by the same broken-down economic system which created them.
As I've stated before, I view a functional democracy as a mechanical factory which mass-produces 'widgets', that is to say, "votes" by its citizens. If the system is working efficiently, and we use quality control in one form, it is called "exit polling" to measure the efficiency of its production, we put candidates in power simply because that is the will from the majority of votes.
Votes which are monitored to acceptable standards.
Exit polling is showing time and time again that this particular factory of democracy is producing defects, by deliberate design.
It follows in my mind that this is nothing more than classic bourgeois democracy at work. It is a broken-down, obsolete factory and always will be. It produces only as many legitimate votes as to make it appear to be producing acceptable numbers. But the owners really are gaming the system all along, and any unwanted votes won't be used to count in the election. Which basically comes down to manipulating the central tabulators.
Fuck Hillary.
And all of her little sycophantic followers.
“The establishment has realized we are not buying it any longer”
http://opednews.com/articles/What-on-Earth-Are-We-Think-by-janiece-farri...
Sanders' campaign isn't about making a point
it's about giving voter's another choice in their selection for Democratic presidential candidates. did the Republican party need 17 candidates to make a point. no! it's about offering themselves as a choice to the voters.
sheesh, the nerve.
The real reason they want Bernie to quit
They want him gone before the FBI investigation is complete so they can shove another establishment Democrat at us when Hillary is indicted. Look for the cries to quit to get louder.
I agree w this. He must stay in the race until Philly
Don't believe everything you think.
One of FSC's major concerns is funding her campaign, if Bernie
stays in through the convention. (This is, anyway, what several national reporters said at a Reporters' Round Table on XM Radio this past Friday.)
IOW, she's already tapping out some of her big donors, and is trying to dig up more wealthy donors, but, she's also hoping that she can expand her small-dollar donors if/when Bernie drops out of the race.
They said that her campaign is distressed that they are still spending money on ads against him, instead of shoring up their campaign funds for the General Election.
According to the Round Table folks, Bernie has outspent her in almost every race, especially lately.
(One of her super PACs is pretty well funded, but her own fundraising has slowed down to the point that she is spending more, than she is taking in.)
Mollie
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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Didn't her losing campaign end up in the hole in 2008?
And she had a high-brow GoFundMe equivalent to cover the bills (and likely fill her bank accounts)?
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
As I recall, she did, RL--guess that's why she's worried. ;-) NT
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Colorado Democrat
The reason Politico referred to these jerks as "Colorado Democrats" and "the VSP of the Democratic Party" is simple: They know that folks like this Coloradoan Berniac (i.e., me) are watching, and will apply El Booto Grande to the backsides of anybody we can catch by name. So, (Cenk Uygur voice) of course they won't inform us as to who they are!
Gak!
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