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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie supporters, a plea. "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes". [View all]Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)75. Thanks for the heads up...
I'm still wondering just how 50.1% of my party completely lost their way and fell in line with the very people that are fucking them over every single day. I know the 1%ers were never going to let the status quo change if they had a voice, and certainly the establishment party and other leadership folks (in labor & various left-leaning NGOs) are really just looking out for themselves.
I'm hoping it's just the last hurrah for the old guard, and that the progressive youth of America seize control of the party. But as you note, we'll no longer be free to discuss that here much longer. Nice to know not everyone will just bend a knee to the corporatists.
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Bernie supporters, a plea. "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes". [View all]
Barack_America
Jun 2016
OP
It would be nice, but comments like the first one make it more and more difficult.
Dustlawyer
Jun 2016
#31
That would be great, but the problem is the presumptive nominee and supporters stand in the way
cui bono
Jun 2016
#48
Even as a Berner I just don't want to believe this. I'm wait-and-see about her first three years.
ancianita
Jun 2016
#50
I hear you. I sound lazy. But I've never not helped the progressive movement.
ancianita
Jun 2016
#54
You used the word "patriarchal" - sorry, but using gender to excuse things Hillary has done, and
djean111
Jun 2016
#56
"I see no evidence that this will end any better than occupy did..."............
socialist_n_TN
Jun 2016
#73
I disagree. Given the depth of the bench, every day past Tuesday reduces his leverage.
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#32
I don't consider Hillary's work in the Middle East and Latin America good for ANYONE, including
djean111
Jun 2016
#68
"There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence."
bhikkhu
Jun 2016
#67
It's a famous revolutionary war quote. And you might check the OP's timestamp.
Barack_America
Jun 2016
#79
I'm sorry you're not familiar with the history of the Revolutionary War.
Barack_America
Jun 2016
#83