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OneAngryDemocrat

(2,060 posts)
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 11:02 PM Apr 2016

"Bernie or Bust"?

TALKING POINTS 101: I have heard a lot of talk about the "Bernie or Bust" movement.

I haven't heard anything however about the Democrats lifting a finger to try and attract the Sanders supporters.

Should we give that movement a name as well?

We can complete the circle connecting the Democratic Party with the GOP by naming it the "Fuck You Liberals" coalition.

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"Bernie or Bust"? (Original Post) OneAngryDemocrat Apr 2016 OP
You should be banned from DU! nt Firebrand Gary Apr 2016 #1
Oh really? OneAngryDemocrat Apr 2016 #4
That is pretty much their stance, isn't it? PowerToThePeople Apr 2016 #2
Like Hillary's shills leaked today they will take care of Bernie's supporters ........"later" bkkyosemite Apr 2016 #3
Please clarify... northernsouthern Apr 2016 #5
Clarification OneAngryDemocrat Apr 2016 #6
There is a shift. northernsouthern Apr 2016 #7
The parties like the status quo. No turn-over in Congress and little in Presidency! snowy owl Apr 2016 #8

bkkyosemite

(5,792 posts)
3. Like Hillary's shills leaked today they will take care of Bernie's supporters ........"later"
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 11:05 PM
Apr 2016

really.........Bernie's supporters will not wait til later. They will be too busy exposing the lies she and her cohorts keep dishing out.

 

northernsouthern

(1,511 posts)
5. Please clarify...
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 11:09 PM
Apr 2016
We can complete the circle connecting the Democratic Party with the GOP by naming it the "Fuck You Liberals" coalition.


Are you saying the DNC is becoming one with the Republican party? Or you are saying to call the Republican party a group too , thus naming them all and completing the circle?

I do wonder if both parties will break to something more like Europe, with Liberal, Conservative,Labor, Socialist, etc... Countries are benefited by joining together, unity and all...but are we hurt by so few options? Should the Dems have sub sections, like liberal, conservative...etc? It seems easier to corrupt a single party or a couple, but maybe it is harder to corrupt a big party since it gets more attention?

OneAngryDemocrat

(2,060 posts)
6. Clarification
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 11:15 PM
Apr 2016

The Democratic Party has gone through a fundamental shift to the right over the last 30 years. The contemporary Democratic Party's economic platform isnt much different then the Republican Party's economic platform of the 1980s.

Free-trade, unionbusting, the whole ball of wax.

And now we have Hillary Clinton questioning Bernie Sanders legitimacy as a Democrat.

Subliminal message: No REAL democrat would EVER vote for a fake democrat like Bernie Sanders.

If Bernie Sanders isn't a bona fide Democrat then neither am I.

The woman is treading on very treacherous territory.

Her campaign is in the gutter and unworthy of someone who aspires to be president of United States.

I argue that the Democratic Party has moved away from its real, bona fide, base.

I argue that they have done so for simple greed and profit.

Bernie Sanders represents a return to lost Party values and principles.

If the party doesn't want to buy that argument, then they don't want his supporters to support them. It is just that simple.

 

northernsouthern

(1,511 posts)
7. There is a shift.
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 12:24 AM
Apr 2016

I am not a fan of the negative words in the OP, but then again your are OneAngryDemocrat perhaps you could be OneAngryButALittleMoreNicelyWordedDemocrat. :p
I was however really bothered by...

GLENN THRUSH: When he puts his head on a pillow at night, do you think he goes to sleep a Democrat?
SEC. CLINTON: [Laughs] Well, I can't answer that, Glenn, because he's a relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I'm not even sure he is one. He's running as one. So I don't know quite how to characterize him. I'll leave that to him. But I know there's a big difference between Democrats and Republicans, and I know that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking my husband, attacking President Obama, you know, calling President Obama weak and disappointing, and actually making a move in 2012 to recruit somebody to run a primary against him. I rarely hear him say anything negative about George W. Bush, who I think wrecked our economy, just not to put too fine a point on it.
GLENN THRUSH: Right.


Time Stamp 56:28
https://soundcloud.com/off-message/hillary-clinton-has-had-enough-of-bernie-sanders


It reminded me too much of this...


CNN: You don't believe the Senator Obama is a Muslime?
SEC. CLINTON:Of...of course not... I mean that's... you know... that there is no basis for that. You know I take him... oooon the basis of what he says, and you know there isn't reason to doubt that.
CNN: And you've said you take Senator Obama at his word that he's not a mus... ?
CNN: (at the same time) ...lim and or implying right?
SEC. CLINTON: (at the same time) No, no I'm not (or good?) there's no... no there... there is nothing to base that on... [her eyes widen] As far As I know.

Source:


It was too close to the whole Trump Obama...
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snowy owl

(2,145 posts)
8. The parties like the status quo. No turn-over in Congress and little in Presidency!
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 12:26 AM
Apr 2016

I mean between Bushes and Clintons!

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