2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]TheKentuckian
(24,904 posts)Bush didn't privatize Social Security either so what?
That is a cop out and it was fucking stupid putting the party upside down on trust on Social Security for absolutely no benefit.
No, this has veered straight into cult of personality stuff and borders on placing godhead on a failable, mortal man, who surrounds himself with more failable and even corrupt people.
You think I'd not call for a primary for a President Sanders if he was calling for cutting Social Security? Beyond laughable.
Folks need to save the worship for church.
I also say this "logic" sets up an utterly unacceptable precedent. Next thing we know we will have we can't offend women who love the 1st woman President, then you get a neoliberal Hispanic and play that tune again. Then a neoliberal openly gay, same strategy and for all practical intents and purposes open policy disagreement and even more so opposition to bad policy becomes sin and worse it won't even be about the merits of the policy at all but reverence for politicians (a thing clearly historically irrational to insane in the vast majority of cases).
Fuck that! There are no possible rewards worth the cost of "winning" in that circular paradigm, we can't just be a bunch of adores that can be sold any bill of goods if the right race, orientation, religion (or lack thereof), or gender of salesman is pitching it from in our party.
This is well on the way Jim Jones/David Kiresh/Reverend Moon talk here. I don't need a new Jesus and if this is the foundation of the coalition then may it chip and shatter and less harm will come of it.