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upaloopa's JournalSo why all the glee that a fascist pig repub is going to beat the Democratic candidate that
a majority of Democrats have voted for in the primaries?
Well Bernie is going to be on Rachael Maddow's show in a few minutes.
I hear the Bernie folks don't watch Rachael any more.
Damn media blackout anyway!
Advice to Bernie supporters.
Whether you vote in November for the nominee or not is not dependent on us.
We have the chance to retain the White House
We have the chance of retaking the Senate
We have the chance to put a liberal majority on the Supreme Court.
We have a chance to make real change.
It is up to you if you are a part of that or not.
We don't run your lives for you.
And the shit we've taken for the past few months doesn't die easily. Your efforts have not gotten the results you hoped for and now you want us to play nice.
Reconciliation is a two way street
If You're Liberal and You Think Hillary Clinton Is Corrupt and Untrustworthy,
You're Rewarding 25 Years of GOP Smears
Obviously, Clinton carries with her more than 25 years in the white-hot public spotlight that Sanders doesn't -- despite his career in the Senate -- and over that length of time people have been able to form opinions of her and they're ones not likely to change at this point. What you know about Hillary is what you know about Hillary. There aren't a lot of surprises. Maybe you figure this is bad for her, but in truth it can be argued that this is a positive rather than a negative because there's nothing the Republicans can throw at her that we haven't already been fed to death. And when you take a step back and look at Clinton objectively -- which is admittedly difficult for many, even, or maybe particularly, on the left -- that's exactly the point. Hillary Clinton's reputation is largely the result of a quarter century of visceral GOP hatred.
Bernie Sanders will never be president. Let's just get that out of the way right now. He stands very little chance of pulling down the Democratic nomination and no chance at all of winning a general election. His rabid acolytes can argue with this all they want but they'll be wrong for several inarguable reasons: because the "political revolution" Bernie Sanders needs to advance his campaign and agenda is pie-in-the-sky thinking that simply doesn't occur in representative democracies like ours, where change always comes incrementally and our entire system is designed so it can't be remade in one fell swoop; because he's a one-note candidate who concerns himself with nothing other than his admittedly noble lifelong obsession with wealth inequality; because America isn't evolved enough to elect an avowed socialist, democratic or otherwise, and it unfortunately won't get near someone who openly eschews religion; and maybe most importantly because once the GOP considered Bernie a sworn enemy rather than the perfect foil it can use to destroy Hillary Clinton, it would eat him alive. Eat. Him. Alive.
There's one more reason Bernie won't succeed -- a very big one -- and it has to do with something I just mentioned. The fact is, he's up against a very formidable candidate for the nomination in Hillary Clinton. Now maybe you doubt this is an insurmountable obstacle because you've seen a flurry of reports over the past couple of weeks of Clinton struggling while Bernie is surging. And you almost certainly have friends clogging up your Facebook feed with impassioned screeds about how Clinton just can't be trusted, how she's an establishment shill with too little integrity and too much scandal and baggage attached to her, how she might even be the embodiment of pure political evil. Obviously, Clinton carries with her more than 25 years in the white-hot public spotlight that Sanders doesn't -- despite his career in the Senate -- and over that length of time people have been able to form opinions of her and they're ones not likely to change at this point. What you know about Hillary is what you know about Hillary. There aren't a lot of surprises. Maybe you figure this is bad for her, but in truth it can be argued that this is a positive rather than a negative because there's nothing the Republicans can throw at her that we haven't already been fed to death.
http://thedailybanter.com/2016/01/hillary-gop-smears/
I'm happy. We are winning. Life is good
We will retain the White House. After electing the first African American to be POTUS we will elect the first woman POTUS.
We can win back the Senate. We will have Kamilla Harris and Russ Feingold and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders sitting in the Senate.
We will have a 5 judge liberal majority on the SCOTUS.
Bernie's revolution can still be a reality millions can rise up and demand change.
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