Bernie Sanders
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The local (city that shall not be named) for Bernie group has asked me not to post anything negative on their board. The negative part I posted was that the local Democratic Party (who cannot get a Democrat elected in a county where the majority is registered Democrat) put the brakes on the local organizing efforts because they, essentially, didn't have their shit together and they don't want anyone else organizing the local efforts if they can't control it. Anyway, I've been asked not to point out the local party efforts to control the local Bernie campaign by asking me not to point out the local party efforts to control the local Bernie campaign on a board controlled by the local party.
This is fucking insane.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Or maybe they're Feel'n the Bern?!?
Sounds incredibly frustrating.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Even the so-called Bernie supporters don't really believe he can win the nomination. They say that outright. Then people can't figure out why they can't get "organized?" I've been in politics too long to understand what's really going on.
That's OK. There's mutinous talk going on and I'm not even leading it. For once. LOL!
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)I'm one of them.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)It's why I'm doing what I can, despite the roadblocks (how little they know me), to get Bernie elected.
merrily
(45,251 posts)supporting Bernie in this primary. They are undermining him.
Let's not let them get it twisted.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I'm a "so-called Bernie supporter" who thinks Bernie can win.
Clintonian tactics make him stronger and his followers work harder.
C Moon
(12,510 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)the D.W.S. syndrome .
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)jfern
(5,204 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)I'm not feeling any Bernie control in my neck of the woods yet. Actually, many want to stop and talk about him when I'm wearing my Bernie Button. But so many around here are crazy about Trump too and that's horrifying.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Even before the start.
Just keep your eyes on the prize.
TBF
(33,776 posts)they (anyone in any established position) are going to fight us all the way. Like Merrily said, eye on the prize.
djean111
(14,255 posts)was to pull in money and support from his supporters to the DNC and Hillary. And that his popularity, and the refusal of his supporters to accept the "but you will vote for Hillary, right?" mantra was not what they were expecting at all. That old "team player" thing does not work, because the results keep skewing towards Third Way Centrist. Which, of course, was intended, but we were not supposed to notice that. People who are just now taking an interest in politics, because of Bernie, see right through that.
And that is not an evil machination by Bernie supporters, it is the fact that the newly interested people look things up, they don't just accept what is shoved at them, they don't swallow the advertising and messaging like hungry baby birds. They don't just dutifully vote for the D. They see what the policies do to their lives.
Maybe both parties are due for an unraveling. Too bad both parties sold themselves to corporations and Wall Street, because it is clear to me that those entities hold the reins.
Oh, and anyone who could actually see DWS at work down here in Florida would not bother saying that if we elect Progressives locally, that would percolate up through the Party. DWS is there to put a stop to that; the DNC does influence the state organizations. DWS has even not supported Democrats in local elections because she was buddies with the GOP opponents. THAT is our DNC chair.
The Florida Progressive caucus here was threatened with losing its caucus standing if it persisted in backing Alan Grayson against just-turned-Dem in 2012 Patrick Murphy. He only turned Dem because the GOP would not back him against Allan West. NOT because he really wanted to be a Democrat. But he fits in well with the Third Way Centrists, who eagerly compromise downwards with the GOP.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I knew what time it was. Any other DNC Chair would have been fired after the 2014 mid-term elections but not ole Deb. They had a plan for her and she's doing EXACTLY what the puppets of the .001% are paying her to do -- do everything she can to tilt it towards Hillary.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, it's the reason I'm NOT a Democrat.
djean111
(14,255 posts)she was "elected". IMO the DNC had the same opportunity to vote for a range of other candidates as the Congressional Dem have, for voting for someone besides Schumer. The candidates have been decided upon before the votes are cast. I did hear rumors that Obama was not happy with DWS, but that asking for her to be replaced would have been labeled sexist or anti-Semitic. So who knows. I doubt she was Obama's choice, though, FWIW.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I was an Executive Board member of the California Democratic Party and was on the INSIDE when I saw what they did to Dean. It was monumentally ugly. His Also Ran second prize was the DNC party chair which they let him hold for a couple of years to be replaced by a corporate lackey, followed by another corporate lackey. We were told how to vote and that's how it was done and is still done.