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2016 Postmortem

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pangaia

(24,324 posts)
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 11:18 PM Jan 2016

Hillary's Corporate Democrats Taking Down Bernie Sanders [View all]

This by Ralph Nader - "spoiler" 1/29/15

Even though he said he would not run as an Independent and be a ‘spoiler’ like Nader,


“…..the spoiled corporate Democrats in Congress and their consultants are mounting a "stop Bernie campaign." They believe he'll "spoil" their election prospects,”


Sorry Bernie, because anybody who challenges the positions of the corporatist, militaristic, Wall Street-funded Democrats, led by Hillary Clinton, in the House and Senate -- is by their twisted definition, a "spoiler." It doesn't matter how many of Bernie's positions are representative of what a majority of the American people want for their country.
What comes around goes around. Despite running a clean campaign, funded by small donors averaging $27, with no scandals in his past and with consistency throughout his decades of standing up for the working and unemployed people of this country, Sanders is about to be Hillaried. Her Capitol Hill cronies have dispatched Congressional teams to Iowa.


Minority House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi has unleashed her supine followers to start wounding and depreciating Sanders. Pelosi acolyte Adam Schiff (D. California) tells the media he doubts Sanders's electability and he could have "very significant downstream consequences in House and Senate races."


For Pelosi it's bring on the 'old girls club,' it's our turn. The plutocracy and the oligarchy running this country into the ground have no worries. The genders of the actors are different, but the monied interests maintain their corporate state and hand out their campaign cash -- business as usual.
Bernie Sanders, however, does present a moral risk for the corrupt Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee, which are already turning on one of their own leading candidates. His years in politics so cleanly contrasts with the sordid, scandalized, cashing-in behavior of the Clintons.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/hillarys-corporate-democr_b_9116450.html
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Let 'em try! 99% > 1%. in_cog_ni_to Jan 2016 #1
In spite of my 'glass half empty' tendencies, pangaia Jan 2016 #3
I'm starting to wish I had your optimism. This all feels like 2008 all over again. VulgarPoet Jan 2016 #5
Chin up! He's got this! Iowa loves him as much as we do. in_cog_ni_to Jan 2016 #6
OK short story. pangaia Jan 2016 #10
Sad... deathrind Jan 2016 #2
Bernie is a UNICORN, remember. pangaia Jan 2016 #4
What's nice is RobertEarl Jan 2016 #7
Even before I read that thread, which I will do, pangaia Jan 2016 #8
Pelosi The Coward That Took Impeachment Off The Table scottie55 Jan 2016 #9
The UNICORN cometh !!!!! pangaia Jan 2016 #11
Pelosi is a fucking disgrace to any adult conception of a ruling party. I KingCharlemagne Jan 2016 #21
All Should Read Ralph's Article scottie55 Jan 2016 #12
He never did hold back. pangaia Jan 2016 #13
Hillary... SammyWinstonJack Jan 2016 #14
Getting nervous . . . . people Jan 2016 #15
like the president, Pelosi fights against liberals much harder than against republicans Doctor_J Jan 2016 #16
So true. And where was she when Wisconsin was beating up on public unions? JDPriestly Jan 2016 #17
They're all backstabbers. Bernie caucused with those same people and served Democrats like us. nt ChisolmTrailDem Jan 2016 #18
I begrudgingly acknowledge the headline premise. Likely correct. silvershadow Jan 2016 #19
I was going to edit the headline, for obvious reasons, pangaia Jan 2016 #20
The guy who gave us Bush isn't in much of a position to complain. About anything. DanTex Jan 2016 #22
Antonin Scalia? frylock Jan 2016 #23
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