The Democratic party is an absolute failure.

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149. An English Lesson for you

I have seen you post these quotes over and over in thread after thread. Each time is a deliberate misquote of Bernie which can be seen if you quote the whole sentence and look at the grammer which clearly you have not done. The entire sentence is that Bernie states 'the current model and tactics of the Democratic party is a horrible failure" not "the Democratic party is a horrible failure".

The subject nouns of the actual sentence are "model" and "tactics". The words "of the Democratic party" only describe whose tactics. To hopefully show you how misleading I put forward the following sentence I just made up and ascribed to a public figure who actually supported Hillary. This invented sentence of a Hillary supporter is "This current critic of Hillary Clinton is a liar".. Now if I misquoted that over 50 times as the person said "Hillary is a liar". You would say I intentionally ignored the meaning of the original statement to put out a loaded quote that totally misinterprets what the original person said. The reason for this is that in both cases "liar" and "failure" modify the subject of both sentences which are in one case "tactics" and "model" and in the sentence I invented "critic". Further, Bernie uses the word "current" which is a snapshot word which implies that other tactics would not be a failure and that tactics of the past were not failures.

If my child or wife goes to a hairdresser and I don't like the new hairstyle and I am honest (and crazy enough) to actually say "I do not like the current haircut of my child". I am not saying I do not like my child or wife. GET IT.


The meaning of the sentence you misquote is that Bernie (like many others) think that the current tactics of the Democratic Party have led to the loss of a presidency, congress, supreme court, state houses, governors, dog catchers etc. As opposed to your botched misreading of his quote and meaning, It is a reasonable statement which has factual elements in support. Of course you are free to disagree with him and think the current tactics are a rousing success but you are misleading if you subscribe a completely different meaning to his sentence based on substituting another descriptive noun for the subject of a sentence.