One thing is for sure, Trump is afraid of Bernie, not so much of Hillary.

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82. At this point you've resorted to making stuff up

If Trumps sees Sanders as "insignificant," he would work to raise his profile so as to damage Hillary; "the perceived greater threat."

Did you actually read that before you posted it? How in the world might that work, even in theory? You're arguing that unless Trump helps Sanders, then he must be afraid of Sanders. That's simply ridiculous. If you're facing two opponents, one of them so weak as to be unable to affect you, then you ignore that opponent and focus on the stronger.

Nothing about Schultz's actions could be perceived as acting in the party's best interests considering Bernie's popularity,

Nonsense. If she doesn't believe that Sanders would prevail in the general election, then it follows that she would work to reduce his chance of landing on the ballot. And, once again, she's an asshole.

record breaking crowds and record breaking number of contributions.

Yes, I've read the propaganda. That's an argument for why you think your preferred candidate would win the general election. It is not an argument supporting the claim that his opponents "fear" him.

Fear trumps reason, reason trumps faith and faith trumps fear, Schultz was operating from an illogical fear mode, just before the debate and especially after Bernie's two major endorsements.

You simply can't be that naive. You have decided that DWS is acting out of fear, so you ignore any suggestion to the contrary. That's intellectually dishonest and it doesn't serve your preferred candidate.

The corporate media's fear mode is directly tied to keeping the status quo in power, regime change and war, their conglomerate owners also have dog in this hunt.

No shit. Nor have I asserted otherwise. But that has nothing to do with the claim by Sanders' supporters that his opponents "fear" him.

Logic dictates that losing money whether by the overturning of Citizens United, Wall Street taxes or higher tax rates against the top earners must affect the decision making of the ownership, upper management and star pundits.

Logic also dictates that they have no reason to fear Sanders if they don't perceive him as a threat. Your entire assumption--that his opponents are afraid of him--assumes outright that he's a viable contender for the general election, and that's far from certain. Hell, it's not even especially likely.

By all of this "they're afraid of Sanders" nonsense is a preemptive defense against his eventual defeat. If he doesn't win the primary, then his supporters will immediately claim that he lost because of some dishonest trickery driven by fear of him. This is not some idle prediction I'm making; it's true already because his supporters are already claiming it.

If as you acknowledge the corporate media and 1% have the power to pull strings and black candidates out especially considering said candidate's record breaking crowds and record breaking number contributions, whether he/she is viable or not is irrelevant, their journalistic duty should be to enlighten the nation,

That's lovely. Let me know when we live in that world or have ever lived in that world. You can invoke the "record breaking crowds and record breaking number contributions" all you want, but they don't support the claim that Sanders' supporters fear him.

self-serving fear is the only logical explanation for their behavior.

That is simply false. It is certainly not the only logical explanation; it's not even the most likely explanation. Raw pragmatism--the need for short-term monetary gratification in terms of page-views and the general election horse race--is at least as likely an explanation, though you choose to ignore it because it doesn't favor your assumption.

Clinton is a media lightning rod in a way that Sanders is not. Jeb Bush is a media lightning rod in a way that Sanders is not. You may not like it, and you may once again wave the "record breaking numbers" flag, but it doesn't matter.

Speaking with adults in my workplace this week, the primaries came up as a matter of casual discussion. The average person in the group could name four Republicans in the race outside of Trump, while the consensus about the Democratic race was that "It's Hillary, right? Isn't another guy running?"


You have provided no argument to support your claim that Sanders' opponents are afraid of him. Instead, you ignore possibilities that don't favor your assumption. I weary of your bogus conflations of fear, your tortured misuse of logic, and your whole-cloth reimagining of reality. I'm done here.


I do not fear Sanders or his supporters, and I will happily vote for Sanders if he miraculously lands on the ballot. However, that seems no more likely now than it did five months ago, and you've done nothing to convince me.