Taibbi: Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie

[QC]

The maddening thing about the Democrats is that they refuse to see how easy they could have it. If the party threw its weight behind a truly populist platform, if it stood behind unions and prosecuted Wall Street criminals and stopped taking giant gobs of cash from every crooked transnational bank and job-exporting manufacturer in the world, they would win every election season in a landslide.

This is especially the case now that the Republican Party has collapsed under the weight of its own nativist lunacy. It's exactly the moment when the Democrats should feel free to become a real party of ordinary working people.

But they won't do that, because they don't see what just happened this year as a message rising up from millions of voters.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/democrats-will-learn-all-the-wrong-lessons-from-brush-with-bernie-20160609?page=3

[HooptieWagon]

1. That's an important article.

[disillusioned73]

2. Yes it is..

I wonder what it will take for them to listen though..

[Bernin4U]

3. And that's the problem.

They think that -we- are the spoiled kids in line at the supermarket, throwing a fit to get a candy bar. So when we refuse to vote with them, it probably won't teach them anything.

[mmonk]

4. Lessons unlearned are the lessons that haunt.

[Bernin4U]

7. RS endorsed HRH

It's just Taibbi that's the problem.

[Duval]

10. If so, it'll quickly be trashed.

So, we need to be on the look out for it!

[Bernin4U]

11. Seriously?

1. It's impossible. Can't happen. There will never, ever, ever be any charges. You Bernie bros should try reality some time.

2. Even if it did happen, see #1.

3. Failing that, any charges will be considered as false constructs. Discussions about charges will be limited to "¿Quién es más bogus?"

[Duval]

9. Very good article.

Thanks, QC.

[blackspade]

12. K&R

But the Party will ignore it....

[HereSince1628]

13. I'm pretty sure the old DLCers will claim they successfully undermined the republicans

and led to their collapse.

Having vanquished their opponent, I have no doubt at all that the New Dems will take possession of the R's old territory

Nature abhors a vacuum