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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu May 26, 2016, 09:51 AM May 2016

This Is How a Revolution Ends

This Is How a Revolution Ends
The Democratic insurgent’s campaign is losing steam—but his supporters are not ready to give up.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.—This is how a revolution ends: its idealism tested, its optimism drained, its hope turned to bitterness.

But then again, according to the official narrative, the primary is already over. Also according to the delegate count, which has Sanders’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, just 78 short of the 2,383 it takes to win the nomination. Also according to the Democratic voters, some 3 million more of whom have supported Clinton than Sanders over the past four months of voting. And also according to Clinton, who told CNN the other day, “I will be the nominee.”

But in the world Sanders’s supporters inhabit, this is all so much media manipulation. “Do you trust the media?” asked one of his introducers, the television host Cenk Uygur. “No!” yelled the crowd. “Do you believe they’ve treated Bernie Sanders fairly?” “Fuck the media!” yelled someone standing near the press riser. (Sanders was also introduced by two actors, Dick Van Dyke and Rosario Dawson.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/bernie-sanders-clinton/484439/
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This Is How a Revolution Ends (Original Post) workinclasszero May 2016 OP
Beginning. mmonk May 2016 #1
"official narrative" NWCorona May 2016 #2
The gif in your signature wins the day firebrand80 May 2016 #3
Thanks :) workinclasszero May 2016 #4

firebrand80

(2,760 posts)
3. The gif in your signature wins the day
Thu May 26, 2016, 09:57 AM
May 2016

I would add a comment on how revolutions usually end, but I'd probably get a hide

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