No matter how Bernie adjusts his message, it won't be enough. Not ever.

[MisterP]

92. that's how the fundies got to be the loudest voice in the GOP, even if it's the corpos that benefit

from the waves of tax cuts the thrice-divorced and lecherous pass once they ride waves of Jayzus and "urban-type thugs" into office

Reagan forged a new GOP from four big sectors--MIC, right-libertarians, Big Business, and the fundies: these sectors are all powerful enough to be parties on their own under a parliamentary system, and already act as kingmakers and even have their own publishing houses

hence the constant race-baiting--YOU don't get welfare, you get government assistance, or the constant Holocaust references (I think they already used that card for a construction scandal somewhere but can't Google it on DU): a heated rhetorical atmosphere doesn't just demonize opponents by association or decouple emotion from any real referent (extraordinarily dangerous already), it *empties politics of meaning altogether* (like how the fundies have little to do with the New Testament, or 80% of the Old, or any legitimate rabbinical readings of the remaining ~20%--or in fact have any of their flock change a damn thing about their lives that doesn't match the existing prejudices of the moment)

it's like the Dem loyalists panicking because if you don't vote for a candidate who promotes X, Y, and Z, a Pub will get in and pass X, Y, and Z! OMG YOU'D BE TOTALLY TO BLAME! it's a Baudrillardian nightmare