If most DU members would support Bloomberg over Sanders they haven't looked at his record

[Awsi Dooger]

137. Don't feed details to those of us who aren't stupid enough to care about details

Nothing in the OP matters in the slightest toward November. One of the great flaws of any type of evaluation is to obsess over every detail, to pay attention every day, to make subjective evaluations every day. Once you take that type of fatal course it's almost impossible to admit to yourself that it is wrong, that you need to stop, to totally ignore.

Think of all the cars whisking along a highway. That is the real world. They will be here again tomorrow. Nothing changed. They are within their little bubble. That is the real world. The reason I don't like Rachel Maddow is that she never presents that real world. She is fixated on two years past. She can provide a wonderful evaluation of two years past. She can also pretend that all of those whisking cars are incorporating new details every day, that they are changing their thinking and direction as a result of the newly acquired details.

Sorry Rachel. They are whisking along with all the familiar priorities and biases as yesterday and a decade prior.

It is the reason we can't force an easily defined liberal or a self-admitted socialist into a national decision, particularly in balanced terrain against a despicable liar owning all the advantages of an incumbent who party has been in power only one term. It doesn't matter what it looks like 9 months out. That nominee will be steadily chewed up.

We can't be dense enough not to apply situational big picture clarity. We can't watch a debate and fall in love with all of our candidates and what they say, our rosy here and now, under some nutcase impression that any of them can win. Ralph Nader ruined 2000 and part of that was his ignorant assessment, "If Al Gore can't defeat the incompetent governor of Texas..." Blah blah blah. It all sourced from details. Ralph Nader knew all the details of George Bush. The voters did not. They don't care.

People with all the day to day details are the ones who persistently insisted that Trump's approval rating would plummet below 30%, that Trump would resign, that Trump would be removed, that Trump would never be renominated. I didn't mind pointing out that Trump is an incumbent. Those things don't happen to an incumbent. I have no details. I paid no attention to politics yesterday. Meanwhile anything I knew from 30 years earlier allowed me far greater predictive ability than all those details, all those issues.

Who can beat Trump? Issues don't matter at all. It has to be someone who places Trump on the uncomfortable defensive. It has to be someone powerful and commanding enough to instantly own respect of the type of voter who always opposes us, those white idiots with the pickup truck and twin American flags. That type will instantly laugh at Elizabeth Warren. They will pause only briefly before laughing at Bernie Sanders. They won't laugh at Mike Bloomberg. They won't vote for him but some of their neighbors will, the ones we desperately need to save.