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Kingofalldems

(38,451 posts) Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:08 PM Apr 2020

Unity:

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Unity: (Original Post) Kingofalldems Apr 2020 OP

Yeah Gothmog Apr 2020 #1

Sanders Must Still Make Good On It At The Convention, Sir The Magistrate Apr 2020 #2

I won't go that far, but he can apply 'leverage' without being unduly divisive...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2020 #3

From A Minority Position, Sir, No, He Cannot The Magistrate Apr 2020 #4

Gothmog

(145,130 posts)

1. Yeah

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:18 PM

Apr 2020

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The Magistrate

(95,244 posts)

2. Sanders Must Still Make Good On It At The Convention, Sir

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:20 PM

Apr 2020

Any talk of 'leverage' to force changes to platform or rules must go by the board.

Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)

3. I won't go that far, but he can apply 'leverage' without being unduly divisive...nt

Reply to The Magistrate (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:23 PM

Apr 2020

The Magistrate

(95,244 posts)

4. From A Minority Position, Sir, No, He Cannot

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:32 PM

Apr 2020

He hasn't the votes to carry anything in his own right. There is no means to secure disproportionate influence, ie the triumph of a minority position, besides threatening something the majority concludes could inflict too great a harm to risk incurring. It is unpleasant, perhaps, for his well-meaning and goodhearted supporters to contemplate, but the thing is what it is. Any unruliness, any divisiveness, any disruption, in even the smallest degree, is open assistance to the cheap thug we must evict from office.

This is a situation in which unconditional surrender is required. Sometimes throwing oneself on the mercy of the court is the one possible means to appeal with success for leniency.

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