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5. is there ONE Sanders supporter who can take responsibility for his failing campaign
Thu May 19, 2016, 07:11 AM
May 2016

...without acting as if he's the only one of the two who's subject to forces working to see him fail?

NO ONE in our party has been subjected to as much negative press as Hillary Clinton, save her husband, in this election and in ALL of the years preceding she's been in the public spotlight. Yet, she has not only fought back from her loss to Obama in 2008, but she's prevailing in this election against odds and resistance that Sanders can only imagine.

It's not some virtue that the Sanders camp looks to be defeated by it all. It's a measure of his ineffectiveness and Hillary's acumen. If he can't push his agenda past the political forces arrayed against him, why should we expect him to perform any better in office?

The fix? Does he mean the will of the voters who chose Hillary over Sanders in the NV caucuses? The will of the majority of people of Nevada who voted for Hillary; the will of the voter that some Sanders supporters intended to subvert at the NV convention?

I doubt it. Evidently, he's making a point which has been refuted. There was no 'fix' in Nevada. The credentials committee was evenly split between parties. Even the chair of the convention who caught the brunt of the violent and abusive threats was a Sanders supporter. Some 'fix' that was. The results out of the convention actually matched the caucus result. You can't get any closer to democracy than that.

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