2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie and the Sandernistas: Into the Void
What a fun read, just don't taser me bro.
"These are the times when I wish the psycho-historians were still active to put the Liberal-Left onto the couch.
The left-wing of the Democratic Party has been abused...but the decades of abuse by the party establishment only draw them tighter into the grip of the abusers. They are constantly on the hunt for the Good Father...They are so desperate to be accepted, to be loved, to be coddled, that they remain completely blind to the fact that they are about to be tasered back into submission."
"The sole purpose of these insurgencies is to keep the Left locked inside of a party that no longer actively represents any of their interests. Its a sad and hopeless confinement, a kind of political life without parole. Sure, many of the Lefts most cherished issues, from abortion rights to climate change, minimum wage to single-payer, get put on the table as a way to keep the backers of the losing campaign animated enough to vote in the general election. Some of these planks will even get inscribed into the Holy Writ of the Platform, where they will be promptly embalmed and entombed until the next convention."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/bernie_and_the_sandernistas_into_the_void_20150803
djean111
(14,255 posts)He does explain why I want to vomit any time anyone tells me I must embrace everyone in the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Platform is just, IMO, a list of things that most Dems forget about as soon as they get to DC.
Just another snide, condescending hit piece. I will be sticking with Bernie, and not with those who think, and act, like the party platform is a joke.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)I've changed two words and I'll stop right there. Cheers!
Trajan
(19,089 posts)That's all I really need to know ... Really ...