Posted on 02/23/2020 6:13:04 AM PST by karpov
Hey, why not nominate Bernie Sanders?
That, it seems, is what Democrats are saying to themselves — and happily. Sanders appears to have romped in Nevada, where entrance polls indicate he even won with self-described moderates and conservatives — and remember, Bernie is the most left-wing person ever to run for the presidency.
All last year, polling showed 53 percent of Democrats did not identify as liberals or progressives — and that convinced political watchers that Sanders had no clear path to the nomination.
This seemed to be the explanation for the strength of Joe Biden throughout 2019 polling. Biden was the candidate for Democrats who didn’t want their party to jump off an ideological cliff, and more suitable to serve the key mission for the Democratic candidate in 2020: Defeating Donald Trump.
Well, guess what? Again, according to the entrance polls, Sanders led among voters who said the most important task of the election was winning over Trump.
Nor did Sanders have a special identitarian quality that would give him an extra boost with a party consumed by identity politics. That is why Elizabeth Warren, with a somewhat similar message to his but with a constant emphasis on her gender, was the flavor of the year for so many in the punditocracy.
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Do they really mind that he’s a self-described socialist — a man who proudly associates himself with the term encompassing the statist political ideologies that denied basic human freedoms, immiserated, and slaughtered literally billions of people in the 20th century?
Democrats may not be socialists themselves, but they appear to be socialist fellow travelers: A poll conducted in 2019 by the Cato Institute revealed that 64 percent of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism, while only 45 percent have a favorable view of capitalism.
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They really hate what they see with Bernie!!
Themselves ?
The Rats are like passengers on a bus being driven by an insane guy and heading to a bridge that’s been washed out. And they’re happier than pigs in chit.
What fools these mortals be.
Do they really mind that he’s a self-described socialist — a man who proudly associates himself with the term encompassing the statist political ideologies that denied basic human freedoms, immiserated, and slaughtered literally billions of people in the 20th century?
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The winds of socialism, with all it’s attendant misery, are blowing. Amazing how so many people are so easily misled.
You can fool a lot of the people a lot of the time.
That’s right, you see, because after they just the bus off the bridge at maximum speed, and it crashes and burns, they are going to build a new and better bus from the flaming wreckage.
At least that’s their plan.
Berned: It’s what happens when our schools quit teaching world history.
” where entrance polls indicate he even won with self-described moderates and conservatives “
Boy...................cant imagine who those guys were. Nope, not at all.
Some Bernie voters are undercover Trump voters.
Operation Chaos, Part Deux!
Heh heh heh...
I’m surprised the issue of his health isn’t more in the forefront.
Bernie IS a rather harmless looking, sounding type socialist, so the voters see NO threat of the reality of his socialism.
All they know is ANTI-Trump!
Once they finally do succeed in electing a guy like Bernie, they don’t realize that it’ll open the door for a STRONG, hard-edged socialist- THEIR “Donald Trump”, if you will... and then they will realize what they’ve done to themselves - and will be unable to live as free people again for the rest of their lifetimes.
You can vote your way into socialism but you’ll have to shoot your way out of it.
This is hilarious... watching Mini Me on The Apprentice- when he and Trump weren’t blood enemies.
Watch Bernie twitch and shake.
That should be sent to the Trump campaign.
I think its a very good idea you came up with.
I bet they’ve already thought about that. But I’ll still tweet my idea to President Trump.
I guess if certain people don’t want to see Trump win, then they must want to see America lose, because those are the choices with the other candidates at this time.
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