Why Bernie is NOT George McGovern

[Ken Burch]

1) He has a strong, coordinated national campaign organization.

2) Bernie's campaign isn't based primarily on one age group.

3) Bernie has extensive labor support.

4) Bernie is a compelling public speaker.

5) The public are with Bernie on the vast bulk of the issues.

(And that's just for a start).

[onehandle]

1. Why Bernie is NOT George McGovern

1) He won't be the nominee.

[livetohike]

3. Good one!

[daleanime]

4. Because he won't be allowed to?

No enthusiasm for you (bad Soup Nazi impersonation).

[DanTex]

7. LOL.

[TIME TO PANIC]

2. 6) It isn't 1972.

[jwirr]

5. Especially this.

[hobbit709]

6. And the ones trying to stop him are like Nixon. Full of dirty tricks.

[TIME TO PANIC]

10. Yeah, and friends with Henry Kissinger.

[fourcents]

8. No Internet when McGovern ran and that's yyuge!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He isn't running against an incumbent president.

He hasn't bungled the selection of a running mate (and is very unlikely to do so).

[Art_from_Ark]

18. No Vietnam War, either

And no White House "plumbers" burglarizing Democratic National Headquarters.
No Republican candidate from California, either.

[Gothmog]

11. I see far more similarities than differences

This ad reminds me a great deal of the Sanders campaign

[workinclasszero]

12. Bernie Sanders equals McGovern 2

Landslide win for the teahaddists and 8 years of republican hell.

Oh wait I forgot about the SCOTUS...make it 30 years or so of republican hell

[KingCharlemagne]

13. Hillary Clinton equals Adlai Stevenson, v. 2.0. So back-atcha - nt

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Stevenson was a far better candidate than Hillary

And Estes Kefauver, his running mate in 1956, was a strong supporter of equal rights (he was one of only 3 Southern senators who did not sign the racist Southern Manifesto). Stevenson's biggest problem was that he was running against a popular war hero.

[artislife]

15. So if H got in, would that mean waving good bye and boarding a helicopter?

[Kentonio]

17. How does that make the slightest bit of sense?

So if we nominate someone to the left of center, the far right of center will win in a landslide? Are you sure you've thought this all the way through?

[artislife]

14. Careful now, you wouldn't want us to compare your candidate

to the other candidate that ran for president in that election, now would you?

[loyalsister]

19. Timing...

Obama’s Tocqueville Effect and the Rise of Bernie Sanders

The “Tocqueville Effect” posits that radical change may not always come when things are bad, but when things are not as good as people expected them to become. In other words, expectations for progress can lead to revolutionary desires if progress fails to come quick enough.

In 2008, Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary because he inspired voters with ideas of hope and change, but then the realities of party polarization, separation of powers, federalism, and wealthy special interests dampened the expectation of swift, comprehensive, or fundamental alterations to either public policy or the political process. In 2008, critics of Obama’s campaign derided his supporters for being naïve idealists who projected their aspirations onto empty slogans. Perhaps, but most people were genuinely inspired by Obama’s call for post-partisanship and a renewed focus on the common good.

http://egbertowillies.com/2016/02/05/obamas-tocqueville-effect-and-the-rise-of-bernie-sanders/?utm_source=Willies+Media+LLC&utm_medium=FBPost&utm_campaign=EgbertoWillies.com

Obama sounds like a socialist!!!

Common good, I am my brother'ssister's keeper are themes that have been very prominant in Obama's rhetoric. Of course, someone who would claim the mantle of socialism is a natural step forward.

We were hopeful with Obama and despite his best efforts, he came up against barriers to change. Bernie has identified them and wants to tear them down.