Posted on 05/23/2016 4:51:43 PM PDT by monkapotamus
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bernie Sanders predicted Monday that the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia could be "messy" as he pushed the party to adopt his progressive agenda, but added: "Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle..."
Asked if the convention could be messy, Sanders said, "So what! Democracy is messy. Everyday my life is messy. But if you want everything to be quiet and orderly and allow, you know, just things to proceed without vigorous debate, that is not what democracy is about."
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Do what you have to do, Bern.
My popcorn will be at the ready.
BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE!
I actually kinda like Bernie. Except that he is a zero accomplishment, septuagenarian communist tool of course.
Pissed off Commies gonna do what they do best, riot..
Preparation Hillary trying to soothe the Bern.
How is he going to get the Party to release the superdelegates?
I just can’t see that happening.
And Hillary had every one of them on her hitman’s speed dial - and they know it.
And that’s not a metaphor.
And they know it.
Fight ‘da man Bernie! (or woman in this case)
Hillary had the backing of the superdelegates in ‘08 also. Then a few announced their shift to Obama. Then a few more. Soon the trickle turned into a stampede.
The party doesn’t have to release them; the superdelegates are free to switch at any time.
Bernie has rotten teeth too. When he smiles, which is rare, he looks like an English socialist.
I think I figured out why so many young people are for Bernie. He’s like the generous grandpa who, when your dad says “Get a job. Move out of the house. Pay your bills” Grandpa Bernie says “Come to me for whatever you need, kid.” and starts putting $$ in your hand.
You sure about that?
Trotskyists vs Leninists
May they both be successful in destroying the demonrat party.
Note to self: buy more ammo.
“Except that he is a zero accomplishment, septuagenarian communist tool of course.”
In other words, the perfect Rat candidate. The other septuagenarian communist tool has a vagina so that gives her the nomination.
If he forgets his Depends?
Asked if the convention could be messy, TRUMP said, "So what! Democracy is messy."
TRUMP says he would not re-appoint Rience Priebus as RNC Chair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Industrial_Workers_of_the_World#1924_split
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Seeds of another split[edit]
Foner identified a schism within the Chicago IWW in addition to the east/west divide, consisting of those who wanted a labor union with a revolutionary program, and those who merely wanted to be a revolutionary cadre leading the working class to revolution via propaganda and agitation.[54] Many other analysts, however, identified two contesting groups essentially according to what they called themselves — centralizers and decentralizers.
Centralizers[edit]
Of the centralizers, Hoxie observes,
The centralizers believe that the actual building up of the industrial organization will train and educate the workers in the conduct, not only of industry, but of all social affairs, so that when the organization has become universalized it can perform all the necessary functions of social control now exercised by the state in its legislative, executive and judicial capacities. This universal organization of the workers will then displace the state, government and politics in the present sense; private ownership, privilege and exploitation will be forever abolished. The one big union will have become the state, the government, the supreme organic and functional expression of society; its rules and decisions will be the law.[55]
Decentralizers[edit]
Hoxie explains the decentralizers,
The decentralizers look forward to what they call a free industrial society. Each local group of workers is to be a law to itself. They are to organize as they please. The present industrial and social arrangements are to be overthrown simply by making it unprofitable for the employing class to own and operate industries. Future society is to consist of independent groups of workers freely exchanging their products. The proper proportions of investments and production, the ratio of exchange of goods, etc., will automatically be determined, just as they are under competitive industry, only then the competition will be between groups of workers, instead of between individuals. Universal knowledge and a superior morality, which will spring up as soon as capitalist society is abolished, will take the place of our present complicated system of social control and do away with the necessity of government in the present sense.[56]
Beyond the described differences, Hoxie concludes, the theories, methods, and policies of the centralizers and the decentralizers were much the same.[57] But historian Philip S. Foner described the decentralizers as “the most vehement and noisiest of the anti-leadership element.” They wanted to remove all officers of the union, and replace them with a stenographer. They also sought to abolish the union’s General Executive Board and the annual convention. In 1913 a majority of delegates rejected the goals of the decentralizers, yet they continued their efforts for years afterward.[58]
When I read quotes from him, I can only picture them coming out of Larry David, and I start laughing.
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