Posted on 02/07/2016 1:31:31 PM PST by Zakeet
"This has gotten way out of hand."
So goes the oft-repeated refrain from top-tier DNC bosses to rank and file operatives who are all now scrambling to try and figure out what is an increasingly serious Bernie Sanders dilemma.
The Sanders' dynamic playing out within the Democrat Party is in fact a far greater and more important story than the Donald Trump vs GOP Establishment meme that the Mainstream Media has put on a repeating loop for the last several months. As combative and boisterous as Trump can be, his views represent a significant wing of BOTH the Republican and Democrat parties and are ultimately, a newly emerged America first sentiment that appeals to millions of voters.
Bernie Sanders on the other hand is a devoted socialist who has for the entirety of his adult life denounced the fundamental tenets of the Great American Experiment. He left the United States to honeymoon in the then-Soviet Union, a top-down government monstrosity that literally enslaved hundreds of millions of people across the globe. The USSR was, as President Ronald Reagan so assertively put it decades earlier, "an evil empire."
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Hillary Clinton is simply an unlikable, lying, and utterly out of touch with reality choice that has now come back to haunt the Democrat Party Establishment.
"They have no idea what to do with Sanders. They don't want to offend and politically displace his supporters while at the same time knowing that if this thing continues to grow, it will destroy the Democrat Party."
(Excerpt) Read more at dcwhispers.com ...
Things are said to have become so panicked and contentious inside 430 S. Capitol St, (DNC headquarters) that current DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been warned this could prove the end of her career if she does not somehow find a way to successfully navigate the morass of the Bernie Sanders phenomena. [If she fails], "She won't be able to get a job washing dishes in this town."
I’m torn as to whether I want us to face Bernie or Hillary. The prospect of a Hillary presidency is so sickening to me that I fond it fascinating that a somewhat honest socialist seems less risky, even though he “polls better”
I love seeing a YUGE ego deflated. Geez, I wonder if hildebeast will need some self esteem therapy if uncle bernie beats her. She’s always go huma weiner.
"I have suggested that the scheme of Socialism is wholly incomplete unless it includes a power of restraining the increase of population, which power is so unwelcome to Englishmen that the very mention of it seems to require an apology. I have showed that in France, where restraints on multiplication have been adopted into the popular code of morals, there is discontent on the one hand at the slow rate of increase, while on the other, there is still a 'proletariat,' and Socialism is still a power in politics.
I.44
"I have put the question, how Socialism would treat the residuum of the working class and of all classes—the class, not specially vicious, nor even necessarily idle, but below the average in power of will and in steadiness of purpose. I have intimated that such persons, if they belong to the upper or middle classes, are kept straight by the fear of falling out of class, and in the working class by positive fear of want. But since Socialism purposes to eliminate the fear of want, and since under Socialism the hierarchy of classes will either not exist at all or be wholly transformed, there remains for such persons no motive at all except physical coercion. Are we to imprison or flog all the 'ne'er-do-wells'?
I.45
"I began this paper by pointing out that there are inequalities and anomalies in the material world, some of which, like the obliquity of the ecliptic and the consequent inequality of the day's length, cannot be redressed at all. Others, like the caprices of sunshine and rainfall in different climates, can be mitigated, but must on the whole be endured. I am very far from asserting that the inequalities and anomalies of human society are strictly parallel with those of material nature. I fully admit that we are under an obligation to control nature so far as we can. But I think I have shown that the Socialist scheme cannot be relied upon to control nature, because it refuses to obey her. Socialism attempts to vanquish nature by a front attack. Individualism, on the contrary, is the recognition, in social politics, that nature has a beneficent as well as a malignant side. The struggle for life provides for the various wants of the human race, in somewhat the same way as the climatic struggle of the elements provides for vegetable and animal life—imperfectly, that is, and in a manner strongly marked by inequalities and anomalies. By taking advantage of prevalent tendencies, it is possible to mitigate these anomalies and inequalities, but all experience shows that it is impossible to do away with them. All history, moreover, is the record of the triumph of Individualism over something which was virtually Socialism or Collectivism, though not called by that name. In early days, and even at this day under archaic civilisations, the note of social life is the absence of freedom. But under every progressive civilisation, freedom has made decisive strides—broadened down, as the poet says, from precedent to precedent. And it has been rightly and naturally so.
I.46
"Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove." EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON
They both may be replaced with more viable candidates at the Democrat Convention - Biden or Elizabeth Warren.
Bernie won’t actually destroy the Dem party, but rather lift the curtain and reveal who they really are and what they really stand for.
Boo hoo for washed up Debbie.
These are the two political families that did just fine while the nation is being left in ruins.
If either one is nominated, do you doubt that the results will be rigged in their favor?
I don’t think Bernie would deliberately try to destroy America, where Hillary would sell the launch codes to the highest bidder.
Last time I saw a girl with a face like Debbie, she was hanging out of the passenger side window of my F-150 barfing Meister Brau through both nostrils!
DAMMIT ZAK, A WARNING WILL YA!!!
Yes. The D party bosses know Hillary is a terrible candidate - and they desperately don’t want to lose. They realize Bernie is problematic too, but he could win while Hillary has to be kept hidden from the voters —— it seems amazing they haven’t come up with a more viable candidate but if they remain stuck with what they’ve got - they’ll definitely choose Bernie. Winnjng is everything when you’re milking the government ( taxpayers) for trillions of dollars and special favors.
They have no idea what to do with Sanders. They don’t want to offend and politically displace his supporters while at the same time knowing that if this thing continues to grow, it will destroy the Democrat Party.”
I raked this stuff out of the corrals this morning before feeding the horses. Sander’s is doing exactly what the Democrat Party wants him to do. Just like Obama he’s doing as he’s told by the almighty party.
“.....[If she fails], “She won’t be able to get a job washing dishes in this town.”
More horsecrap. She’s doing as the party tells her. No more. No less.
The Party, the Democrat Party is the source of life for every Democrat that walks the party line. The party is everything. The Democrat lives for the party, NOT the people.
That's why Sanders is popular. Because instead of making an emotional argument against socialism - that it has literally killed millions of people in the 20th century alone - Republicans like to talk statistics and debate minutiae.
I absolutely believe the current crop of Americans will elect a Bernie Sanders. DNC has nothing to worry about. They already elected a communist.
They will have no choice...
It will piss off the Hispanic voter base because they are expecting an Hispanic VP pick...
It will be a calculated move, but one they must make...
Bernie will take it knowing this will be his one shot at being more than a old angry commie hippie from a small state...
Hillary will promise him to let him be her attack dog on Wall street...
Bern the Witch!
They’ve threatened to fire Debbie Blabbermouth Shultz several times, but it ain’t happened yet.
I think you're on to something there. If Hillary falters, the Dem power brokers could float a Biden/Warren ticket. Biden would satisfy the Dem establishment, while Warren would (somewhat) mollify the Sanders supporters.
I can’t say that I’ve never done it
but it’s not nice to get your dog drunk. ;-)
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