Fears of Bernie Sanders winning growing among Democratic Establishment

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56. Yep. I think that's a VERY safe bet.

We’ll win the (primary) battle but lose the (general election) war. For exactly the reason you state, brush. trump’s already started it - a tweet weeks ago referring to “socialist/communist” - blurring the two concepts so it’s just about these foreign “ists” that we’re all taught to dread from the get-go: communist, socialist, fascist, collectivist, Leninist, Stalinist, the works.

Few in the general electorate know or understand any of those labels. All they know is it’s all negative and off-putting and somehow or other, NOT “American”. Those are all bad words, scary concepts, and anyone who embraces them doesn’t really have red-white-&-blue Yankee-Doodle blood coursing through their veins. That’s the simplistic, either/or, black-‘n’-white, either/or, good vs evil mindset at work from that side of the divide.

Democrats, liberals, progressives - always operate from a different mindset - one that acknowledges the practical reality of many shades of gray, not mere rigid “black or white” mentality.

Just something I’ve discerned in my 50-some-odd years of watching politics and human behavioral reflexes.