Democrats’ demons: reason to fear convention chaos

NY Post ^ | 19 May, 2016 | Seth Lipsky

[MtnClimber]

The Democratic warhorse Dianne Feinstein is warning that Bernie Sanders’ campaign against Hillary Clinton could turn the party’s convention in Philadelphia into the kind of disaster that erupted in Chicago in 1968.

“It worries me a great deal,” she tells CNN.

I can understand why. I was there. Covering the Democrats’ 1968 convention for one of America’s greatest newspapers, the Anniston (Ala.) Star, I saw a bitterly divided party, riven by the Vietnam War and Jim Crow, met with violence in the streets.

The convention finally handed up, in Vice President Hubert Humphrey, one of the finest liberals in history. The Democrats failed to heal their rifts, though, and lost to Richard Nixon. The party would never be the same.

There are no perfect parallels between the Democratic Party today and the one that came a cropper in 1968. But the mob mentality of some of Sen. Sanders’ thugs, on display in Nevada, must make Feinstein wonder.

Like Clinton, Humphrey was an establishment figure challenged by a radical left-winger. Back then it was Sen. Eugene McCarthy, an opponent of the Vietnam War, and a small army of nihilists.

[MtnClimber]

The protestors eyes will bern from the tear gas.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

-—The protestors eyes will bern from the tear gas.
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Nah, the cops should all get the blue-flu this day and call in sick.

after all #BlackLivesMatter

[Farmer Dean]

Gas masks are available on the internet.I’m taking mine to Cleveland.

[spokeshave]

Bern baby bern.

[Hardastarboard]

I would SO love to be a contributor to the chaos. But I have to work to support their utopian welfare state dreams.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

-—Bern baby bern.
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...convention infernoooooo...

we may have the makings of a new song here

[samtheman]

The article’s tone, depth and style is as if written for a scholastic news magazine for 5th graders.

[justlurking]

The article’s tone, depth and style is as if written for a scholastic news magazine for 5th graders.

That pretty much sums up the NY Post's target audience in maturity (but not necessarily age).

[SoFloFreeper]

[Tallguy]

I know that’s the narrative. But Humphrey didn’t lose by that much. How would Chicago be viewed if HH had eeked out a win?

[samtheman]

Some articles in the NY Post are good. Way better than the NY Daily News, which is a Hillary Rag.

[MtnClimber]

I agree it is tone deaf. It could have been written to show the similarities to the Stalin vs. Trotsky battle to see who would lead the plunder of the public wealth.

[samtheman]

It’s not just tone deaf. It’s extremely simplistic. Each small paragraph a simplistic summary of a simple idea, really aimed for middle school. There are no editors anymore, so I am not surprised it got published.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I don’t fear it, I welcome it.

[atomic conspiracy]

Historical trivia: Humbert Humphrey was a licensed pharmacist. He could have announced this fact to the rioting hippies and they would suddenly have tried to make friends with him.

[HangUpNow]

A kindred spirit of the 1968 Dem convention chaos and anarchy is now worried about the 2016 convention version? Has Bill Ayers been interviewed about his concerns?

Time to invest in Popcorn, folks. June 14 till the election is a long time. Bernie's hardcore anarchists will never surrender.

[BushCountry]

Here is an image of Boxer afraid for her life. She was blowing kisses to the yelling crowd, then flipped them off.

[Carl Vehse]

The convention in Philadelphia needs to include two groups with originating or close ties to the Demonicrat Party: The Ku Klux Klan and BlackLivesMatter.

Then turn on your 72-inch HDTV and grab your popcorn.

[Chode]

bring a couple extra sets of filters