Sanders Is for Schmucks: When will young voters come to their senses?

[imagine2015]

Sanders Is for Schmucks
When will young voters come to their senses?
By Tom Tomorrow

[blm]

1. Exactly - It's the PRIMARIES.

Exactly when people should vote their preferred candidate on the ballot. Period.

[Octafish]

2. Sensible.

Is that Main Street out the window?

[anotherproletariat]

4. Every generation has their 'fringe candidate' election...think Gary Hart, Ralph Nader, or even

the right wing libertarian candidates or Ross Perot. It takes that first, naïve election to realize that a vote is better spent on a candidate who can win, even if they are willing to compromise with the other side. Compromise is the basis of Democracy, and why progress is so slow...no matter how much we wish it was otherwise. It often requires some political maturity to see this clearly.

[Human101948]

6. Compromise these days means moving across the aisle and joining the Republicans...

They do not compromise as has been demonstrated by their eight years of obstruction against President Obama.

Your tried and true bromides are not working any more.

[anotherproletariat]

7. So electing a fringe candidate will help how?

Do you think they are more likely to successfully deal with the repubs?

[Human101948]

9. No, I guess you are right about who deals best with the Republicans...

[imagine2015]

10. What "fringe candidate" did you have in mind super-proletarian?

Deal with the Republicans?

Bury them!

What kind of deals with the enemy do you advocate?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

20. The republucans have been at war with all things

that are fair, just and meaningful.

Don't hand them a third way olive branch. Hand them an anvil and let them sink.

Fuck all republucans abd those DINOs that would do business as usual with them.

[anotherproletariat]

23. Funny thing about my user name...I came here assuming I was pro-Sanders, and chose a name

to indicate my affiliation with socialist thought. Then I came head to head with the aggressive Sanders supporters, and was almost immediately turned off. Revolution is one thing, violent, close-minded mutiny is another.

[imagine2015]

8. Clearly we need a President who will become known as "The Great Compromiser"

Thanks for your input.

How do you think we should have compromised with the slaveholders in order to avoid a Civil War and that terrible Reconstruction
period hated by the former slave owners?

It takes political blindness to ignore the history of this nation and the role that mass movements and independent organizations have played in every major progressive change that has improved this country.

How do you propose we compromise with racists, union busters and sexists?

[anotherproletariat]

11. Just like Obama has been doing, you compromise on the little things, and save the executive

moves for the more important issues. But a fringe candidate will not be able to even begin to work with the other side, and would not have enough popular support to make large moves...not that one would ever be elected. (Thus the definition of 'fringe'.)

[PyaarRevolution]

12. Have you even LOOKED at Sander's legislative record?

He's gotten a lot of things done, he just hasn't had his name as a sponsor or co-sponsor on most so it appears he's done less. He doesn't care about always getting credit like many in politics.
He's also not fringe, it's just we've moved so far to the Right because of that jackass Ronald Reagan that what would be considered center in the past(Eisenhower) now has shifted to the Left. You see the median shifts further right as the center when the very right becomes the normal right.
Even the Right Wingers in Europe think we're nuts when they hear our policies, they're more anti-immigrant and very nationalistic, that's where their Right wing stance comes from. Well, at least for the most part. Apparently one of Bush's people or one of our Right wing economists saw fit to go to Europe and infect them with Neo-Liberalist policies, which is where you mainly see Austerity come from.

[floppyboo]

13. Bernie's track record for 2014 - Grab a coffee. Do you have Hillary's?

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357/report-card/2014
Edit
here's more including this congress:
https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033

Please continue embarrassing yourselves with the 'fringe candidate' trope.

[liberal from boston]

21. Go Bernie

Exactly!!! List of some Of Bernie's accomplishments: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/6/1428616/-Bernie-Sanders-What-the-Hell-Have-You-Done-for-Us-Lately

[islandmkl]

14. i might suggest your postname is slightly skewed Marx....

anotherbourgeoisie would seem to be more appropriate, but that's merely an observation...

[Octafish]

15. Gary Hart was no fringe. He was the front runner until he went on a boat.

The Monkey Business. Now, what now-famous then-unknown American Democratic politician would go on to benefit from that guy getting photographed with a girl on his lap? Not in 1988 -- 92.



Gary Hart stood up to the Nixon-Reagan-Poppy crew. Unlike too-few Democratic leaders since.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

19. Looking back, H. Ross Perot was right on a few things.

NAFTA being one of them.

[onehandle]

3. This is particularly funny to me because I have images blocked from DU in my browser.

'Sanders Is for Schmucks: When will young voters come to their senses?' is all I got out of the post.

[felix_numinous]

5. There used to be posters here using that

weasel for their avatar.

[chervilant]

16. Sigh...

On Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:51 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Sanders Is for Schmucks: When will young voters come to their senses?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511713685

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

calling names..Schmuck:The word came into the English language from Yiddish, where it has similar pejorative meanings, but where its original and literal meaning is penis.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:59 AM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Don't be ridiculous

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Explanation: Seems to be a stretch to come up with any reason to alert this post. I'm Jewish and use schmuck daily and will continue to do so.

Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: The OP is a toon by Tom Tomorrow, a well know cartoonist, it doesn't meet the criteria for hiding it.

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Explanation: Are you kidding me? Ridiculous alert.

Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: OMG! Seems to me the HRC supporters are getting desperate. Is it time to throw TOM TOMORROW under the bus?!?

Stop abusing the alert option.

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

Each and every visit to this website, I witness more frantic and derisive attacks by Hi11ary supporters. This pretty much takes the cake, today.

[tralala]

17. Wow, that alerter is a putz (n/t)

[chervilant]

18. Well, now...

There's another interesting Yiddish term.

Do you feel sorry for the Hi11ary supporters who seem to be ever more frantic and derisive now that Senator Sanders has won seven of the last eight contests? Like their compromised candidate, they seem to be in react mode, getting ever more desperate in their attacks.

Sad, really.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

22. Love the Bread & Puppet Circus reference

Vermont giant puppet people