Time for Sanders to grow up - National Catholic Reporter
I have noticed that lots of the commentaries since NV talk about Sanders constant whining.
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Pat Fuller ?@bannerite 2h2 hours ago
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Time for Sanders to grow up
Michael Sean Winters | May. 19, 2016
Sen. Bernie Sanders is 74 years old. And, it is time for him to grow up.
This past weekend, supporters of the Vermont senator's bid for the Democratic nomination not only disrupted the state party convention in Nevada, they threatened the party chair. They threw chairs. That is not democracy in action. That is a mob.
In response, the senator and his campaign could not manage a real apology. Sanders said it "goes without saying" that he is opposed to violence and intimidation, but before that and after it, he hedged his repudiation of the mob-like tactics with charges that the system is rigged, that the party needs to change its policies, that he has not gotten a fair shot from Democratic National Committee Chair Debbi Wasserman Schultz. It was like listening to some prelates apologize for covering up the sexual abuse of children 15 years ago, more self-justification than contrition. If your child offered the kind of apology the senator offered, you would sit them down and explain what a real apology sounds like.
The turmoil in Nevada is not the only reason to question the maturity of Sen. Sanders. It has been obvious for weeks now that there is no viable path for him to attain the Democratic nomination. Ever since the April 2 primaries, in which Clinton won the primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the last three by wide margins, and Sanders took only Rhode Island, she has had an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates. She has received 3 million more votes than Sanders. How is the system rigged? And, if even Sen. Ted Cruz knew that once there was no path to the nomination, it was time to get out of the race, why does this simple mathematical calculation, and the political consequence that flows therefrom, evade Sanders?
I would have no objection to Sanders staying in the race if he were merely focusing on the issues that are closest to his heart, such as income inequality and overturning the Citizens United decision that opened the floodgates to more money and less transparency in politics. The problem in Nevada was that his supporters were questioning the legitimacy of the nominating system itself. His whining about his loss in the New York primary similarly focused on the fact that the primary there is not open to unaffiliated voters, as if it was somehow illegitimate for a political party to restrict voting in the selection of its nominee to members of the party. More than that, even if the DNC's chair favored Clinton, even if a closed primary favored Clinton, there has been nothing "rigged" about the process and, what is more, it is hard to imagine any amount of rigging that would account for a 3 million vote differential..........
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