If nominated, Bernie Sanders will hand the 2020 election to Donald Trump

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44. At the risk of sounding trite, I feel that being in the "flower of one's youth" does not involve...

...physical age.

Youth is about having a fresh mind.

Look, I like Joe Biden. I think he's a fine man. I'm not entirely comfortable with his "reach across the aisle" rhetoric in 2019 since it was different when he was in the Senate 10 or 20 years ago. The people on the other side of the aisle were not Nazis then. Modern Republicans have made it very clear that they are comfortable with extreme racism, wanton environmental destruction, and physical violence against women, the latter being something of which many of them are actually proud, pussy grabbers in the White House, pussy grabbers on the Supreme Court.

Now, I have zero interest in academic politics from decades ago. I'm sure it's all very cute, and I'm sure at the time I might have been appalled about certain positions that Dr. Warren had as an academic. As for the tenure of a particular professor, I don't know a damned thing about it; neither does the journalist - we can argue that journalists are among the set which have lost much of their integrity in modern times - and neither do you.

I've had conversations with several people who have been denied tenure; none of them thought it was justified; all had some reason why the decision was wrong. Maybe in some cases they were right; in others they were clearly being inflated. Having no idea of who Drucilla Cornell is I looked at her Wikipedia page; she seems to have survived quite nicely as an academic. Any injustice toward her early in her academic career does not compare with the injustice of children being put in cages at the US border.

It doesn't compare with any of these horrors now taking place in this country and on this planet.

If Ms. Warren has been a rabid conservative and is now defined by the modern Das Sturmer, the propaganda channel at Fox News, as a "far left" candidate, she is more qualified to understand the path that led former airhead laissez-faire Ayn Rand worshiping "small government" types into being full blown Nazis than Joe Biden is. Unlike him, she knows whence they come.

I am not supporting her because she has always been crystalline pure of heart and soul. I'll leave that shit for Sanders supporters, albeit with their silly and frankly absurd view of what "purity" is. I'm supporting her because she's a young Democrat, because she's been there and done that, and changed. You can change only when you are young, I think Among these latter day Nazis, she will be better able to see if there are any left with a shred of integrity and decency, a dubious case I think, but to the extent that there are, as a religious person might put it, sinners who might be saved, she will be better able to tell who they might be.

I appreciate that Eleanor Roosevelt was able to sit at a dinner table with James Eastland and pretend to smile. But that was then and this is now. There can be no justice in wanting to do business with people who put small children in cages.