Posted on 05/24/2016 1:43:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In the year 2000, fresh out of college, I cast my second-ever presidential election vote for Ralph Nader.
Now, 16 years later, I look back on my young, Nader-voting self and see plenty of parallels with the college students who are feeling the Bern. Hillary Clinton is a wonkish, often uninspiring candidate, just as Al Gore was.
And Bernie, as Nader did, promises to dial back the influence of big-money corporate donors and bring about real change. He even has Bill Murray, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, and Eddie Vedder on his side.
But if Bernie splinters the left and erodes Clinton's support among voters, the consequences for our country could be even more dire than another Bush administration. If the Bush administration was catastrophic, a Trump administration could be cataclysmic. He has no compunction about stirring up violent, hateful rhetoric among his supporters. He wants to deport millions of people and ban an entire religious group from entering the country. He threatens to shut down the press. If he gets elected, we'll be counting down the days before he insults some world leader and starts World War III.
Come November, it will be tough for the Democrats to energize voters who see their nominee as fundamentally untrustworthy and their party as unjust. Yet the left threatens to fracture. How do we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Like this.
To the Bernie voters who are disgusted with the process and disillusioned with the Democratic nominee, I hear you. But if you plan to stay home, defect to a third party candidate, or vote Trump in November, think back to the fall of 2000. It only took 100,000 ideological purists in one state to give our country away to a know-nothing nightmare of a president.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
They’re in love.
...with stupidity.
Nice try...
Yeah, and when he does, what will he say? Maybe something like, "We came, we saw, he died - hahahahaha!"
Hey Donald, you reading this? Free hint here.
...Hillary Clinton is wonkish...
Shrewish, harpyish cankleish.
Hey Millennials, look at my thumb . . .
Let’s try to keep this one under wraps ok fellas. Don’t want any of those Bernie supporters swapping to hillary now.(or ever)
Fast Eddie Rendell was right . . . more unattractive women will vote for Cankles
wonkish? That’s why they think the “kids” don’t like her? They truly live in a bubble. The “kids” know she’s a criminal, an elitist and a fraud.
Hey Darbs, guess what? You’re still like them. Foolish, naive, know it all.
I was once like that . . . but I changed for real
I cast my second-ever presidential election vote for Ralph Nader.”
ANd you work for Slate, the Communist Rag for the Demonrat Party. Obviously you never Grew up and Moved out of your parents house, and then you admit to being Stupid and never growing out of it.
In My First Election, I Voted for Ronald Reagan!!!
Dear Comrade, please return to the Party. Comrade Clinton needs you.
This seems to be the author:
Darby Saxbe
I see a Hillary person. Plain and simple.
Still a numb nut child
I was once like that . . . but I changed for real
Exactly....I thought that was the way this article was going!
+10
Not a chance. Ol Darbs is a perfesser of Psychology
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