Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumWhy are Hillary supporters so nervous and angry?
They keep doing the "math" and grumbling like Captain Queeg rolling the steel balls in his hands and complaining about "disloyalty"
"...a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
This is what Sanders has allowed his campaign to become. When he finally DOES face reality, I expect that his most rabid supporters will turn on him. He will get no sympathy from me, and the likely hood of my choosing to ever respect him again shrinks with each passing moment.
Of course, this famous speech from MacBeth begins with the announcement:
"The queen, my lord, is dead."
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)the wheels fell off the bus.
islandmkl
(5,275 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)hood?
"...a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more"
What is the likelihood the poster in question was frothing at the mouth and sputtering while cutting and pasting?
Human101948
(3,457 posts)and I missed it entirely. But definitely spittle spewing going on there.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)potone
(1,701 posts)What I noticed yesterday is new members, some of them with only a few posts, immediately jump on the "Bernie should drop out now" bandwagon. I think they only joined DU to demoralize Bernie supporters. It is so transparent that it is really insulting to our intelligence.
As well as that statement, they also are passionate about defending DWS's statement about preferring closed primaries. I even saw threads in the Hillary group arguing that no one should be allowed to run as a Democrat unless they had been members of the party for years. These positions taken together are in effect a call to Bernie supporters to give up now, not participate in the primaries unless they have been Democrats before this election season, and yet vote for Hillary in the GE.
It is precisely this arrogance that makes it increasingly difficult for Bernie supporters to support her if she wins the nomination. I, and many other people, am tired of having the choice of voting for a Republican or a Republican Lite. If the Democratic party is to thrive, they have to broaden their base of support, not narrow it. As someone who has voted for Democrats for decades, I deeply resent being given the choices of candidates who do not reflect the interests of the majority of the people in this country.
Why are they angry? It is because they know, deep down, that Hillary does not represent our interests.
The Republican party is in full meltdown. The Democratic party could go the same way, and soon, if this badgering continues.
Bernie is right: we need a political revolution! If not now, when?
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)shit their pants last night. Trump vs Hillary? She don't have a prayer against him.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)and they keep thinking it will backfire.
Which it very well might.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I would like to know which illustrative member of Camp Weathervane dropped that turd.
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)thereismore
(13,326 posts)mac56
(17,575 posts)Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)Clinton loses many of her primary advantages in the GE: Trump's name recognition much higher than Sanders, the DNC can't put its thumb on the scale in her favor in the GE, the money advantages are reversed because Bernie rejected corporate campaign cash unlike any GOP candidate would, Bernie hardly attacked her compared to what lies ahead, half the country is deadset against any more Clintons in the White House, if she can't decicively beat Sanders among declared Democrtats then she has a very uphill climb, David Brock's Republican-lite smear-laden campaign will be less effective against Trump, she runs to the Right of Trump on several important issues, there will be no media blackout of Trump unlike the one of Sanders, it isn't a 'closed' election, and she spent more time alienating Indies than courting them, yet she must now rely on their support.
beltanefauve
(1,784 posts)has she alienated Indies and Liberals, her campaign has made zero efforts to GOTV. The new registrations are as a result of our campaign. This, too, will come back to haunt her.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)They're pathetic. They'll "get it" after Bernie's elected President.
They believe the queen 👑 was due her coronation and Bernie stopped it. Poor, sad little subjects.
Go Bernie!
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
QC
(26,371 posts)Ino
(3,366 posts)though it's not clear why he/she thinks they will.
Not gonna happen!
"likely hood" <---- BWAH!