Eugene Robinson: Sanders’ backers risk President Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Bernie Sanders is playing a dangerous game. If he and his campaign continue their scorched-earth attacks against the Democratic Party, they will succeed only in one thing: electing Donald Trump as president.

I say this as someone who shares much of Sanders' political philosophy; I too, for example, see health care as a basic right. He has run a remarkable and historically significant campaign, pulling the party to the left and pumping it full of new progressive vigor. His crowds are almost as big as Trump's and perhaps even more enthusiastic. Most important, he has brought legions of young people into the political process.

But he hasn't won the nomination.

Hillary Clinton has an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, earned by her performance in primaries and caucuses. In the aggregate, she leads Sanders by about 3 million votes. The will of the party is clear: More Democrats prefer Clinton over Sanders as their nominee.

Instead of accepting this obvious fact, the Sanders campaign is behaving like a 2-year-old who can't have ice cream for breakfast. All along, Sanders and his aides have claimed that the party establishment was unfairly tipping the scales in favor of Clinton. Now the Sanders people have gone further and are deliberately stoking anger and a sense of grievance — less against Clinton than the party itself. This is reckless in the extreme, and it could put Trump in the White House.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160522/OPINION04/160529865/Sanders'-backers-risk-President-Trump-

[Cary]

1. What is their functional goal?

I don't see that they have one. I ask and I get some circular nonsenese.

[sarae]

2. Something about their vote being

very important and needing to be earned. And that's usually followed up by, "well, I'm tired of settling" because they have such hard lives, you know.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Yep

Living in their parents' basement and sitting in front of a computer all day is hard work.

[stopbush]

5. Yep. Bring back the draft and we'll see just how

many ABC (anybody but Clinton) voters there are among the college set.

Must be nice to have the privilege to not vote for Hill against the likes of Trump.

And what is all the anger in the electorate really about? It's about the Rs hating that a black man is president, so they gin up the Tea Party first and let the meme sink in until it infects the Ds as well. Yes, we're pissed off that President Blacula has ruined this country with low unemployment, a soaring stock market, an economic depression righted, healthcare for 90% of the nation, no involvement in a major war, LGBT rights the law of the land, OBL dead with ISIS on the run, diplomacy at work in Cuba, and all the other horrors Obama has unleashed on this nation.

No wonder Rs and the BSers are so pissed!

[TeamPooka]

18. +100

[sarae]

12. sad,

but true!

[Cary]

7. Note my use of the word "functional."

But thanks for your interpretation. That makes sense, in a dysfunctional way.

Makes me a little dizzy .

[sarae]

11. haha

I missed the "functional" part. My reply wasn't very serious, I know. I just get frustrated with the ABCs (Anybody But Clinton).

[yeoman6987]

6. These articles might be true if it was October.

Hillary didn't suspend until June 2008. Let's see how the rest of the states vote and go from there.

[book_worm]

4. And while it isn't all Sanders supporters it's enough of them

to make it a close election. NBC put it at 20% while ABC had it at a third of BS supporters currently saying they would vote for Trump if BS isn't the nominee.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. A-friggin'-men!

Now the Sanders people have gone further and are deliberately stoking anger and a sense of grievance — less against Clinton than the party itself. This is reckless in the extreme, and it could put Trump in the White House.

[Worldly Traveler]

9. What?

I can read the polls, with comprehension, and it appears to me that Hillary as the nominee risks a Trump Presidency.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Here's your poll

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-18/despite-polls-republicans-see-sanders-as-an-easier-opponent

And this is the Hillary Clinton group. The door is right that way>>>>>>>>>

[Cha]

16. He's gone.

[Cha]

15. Yeah, that's what BS is pushing.. 'cause he can't beat Hillary but thinks he can beat trump. LOL

BS hasn't even been vetted for decades like Hillary has.

sanders LOST.

[Hekate]

10. "They display a degree of entitlement they have not earned."

Boy howdy. There's a thread in the BS group bemoaning how the poster was banned from the AA group, with a link. (I was checking out Greatest Threads and stumbled on that one -- you can find it if you want.)

Turns out a lot of BSers really feel they have the right to go to the AA group and whitesplain, and are mightily aggrieved when they are shown the door after nobody agrees with them. It was the responses to the OP in the AA group even more than the whinefest in BS that raised my eyebrows.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. I've served on several juries where supposed Sanders supports have trolled the AA group

Pretty sad

[Cha]

17. I know from reading in the AA Gr that a lot of BS fans feel they have the right to

explain burnie in there as if no one gets who he is Already. I also know it's not easy to get blocked from there so they must have really been disrupting and wouldn't stop like some of them do.