Posted on 04/05/2018 1:12:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hasn’t lost his ability to make Democrats mad, and once again, he has triggered an intraparty kerfuffle on social media.
As we head towards the next presidential cycle, many people — on the right, the left and in the media — will be saying Democrats are in the throes of an identity crisis, a struggle for their party’s soul that will tear them apart. But they aren’t, and they won’t be. The Democratic Party screws up plenty and contains its share of idiots, but when it comes to its identity, it’s doing just fine.
On Wednesday, Sanders spoke at a commemoration event in Jackson, Miss., to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King. BuzzFeed reporter Ruby Cramer quoted Sanders as saying:
“The business model, if you like, of the Democratic Party for the last 15 years or so has been a failure . . . People sometimes don’t see that because there was a charismatic individual named Barack Obama.”
In response, some folks revved right up to a now-familiar criticism of Sanders, namely that he always wants to subsume every issue — even the issue of racial justice, on the anniversary of King’s slaying — to economics.
Bernie Sanders should go ahead and keep offering his critique of the Democratic Party, and anyone who thinks he’s wrong should say so. It’s a healthy debate to have. But it doesn’t mean the Democrats have an identity problem.
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In today’s Rat Party it’s the Marxist clique vs the Maoist clique.
When you have the media and can manufacture as many votes as are needed, it isn’t hard to win.
“millions of good, honest D voters’
Huh? Where?
Possibly, socialism goes further back than that, to Rome’s model, Nimrod and his empire. Certainly he was the first post-diluvian cult of personality, and got the people organized into many vain construction projects culminating in things such as the Tower of Babel.
You’re probably right.
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