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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:40 AM Mar 2016

Can someone explain to me the intersectionality between...

Current Progressivism and tangible concern for the issues, and the current Bernie Or Bust campaign (apparently a petition going around)? Im very confused how they intertwine and/or overlap.

Is Bernie or Bust just a bunch of rabble rousers or is this current progressive groupthink? If so, what is the intersection between tangible concern for issues and Bernie or Bust?

Personally I think the Dem base will unite.

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Can someone explain to me the intersectionality between... (Original Post) JaneyVee Mar 2016 OP
Nope... malokvale77 Mar 2016 #1
Ok. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #2
LOL. Perfect! nt silvershadow Mar 2016 #103
good point malokvale pdsimdars Mar 2016 #110
Here's part of the American Values Project manifesto on Hortensis Mar 2016 #111
"progressivism" marions ghost Mar 2016 #124
This is PROGRESSIVEVALUES.ORG's definition, MG. Hortensis Mar 2016 #127
OK marions ghost Mar 2016 #129
I agree that in the 1990s the party crossed lines Hortensis Mar 2016 #133
So marions ghost Mar 2016 #141
Can't or won't? "Bernie or Bust" is obviously, Hortensis Mar 2016 #115
Nnnnnnnnnnope. cherokeeprogressive Mar 2016 #3
Hey Janey, where's this Bernie or Bust campaign you speak of? is the the new meme for tomorrow? litlbilly Mar 2016 #4
Right here: JaneyVee Mar 2016 #7
One article unbelievably claims Bust stems from "organic integrity." Hortensis Mar 2016 #140
This message was self-deleted by its author Chichiri Mar 2016 #29
dont bother answering, youve been on my ignore list for a long time litlbilly Mar 2016 #5
How did you see this post? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #10
LOL Lucinda Mar 2016 #145
petition you say? where can I find this petition of which you speak? azurnoir Mar 2016 #6
Right here: JaneyVee Mar 2016 #8
but petition not there now I haz sad azurnoir Mar 2016 #12
So you're saying you never heard of it? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #14
no but not really paying attention either busy checking change.org petitions azurnoir Mar 2016 #16
The link I gave contains a link. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #18
ah links within links like a puzzle it is azurnoir Mar 2016 #61
"Like a circle in a spiral // Like a wheel within a wheel" -- Windmills of your mind JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #64
A riddle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a sort of croissanwich type deal. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #77
circles within spirals are paradoxical azurnoir Mar 2016 #80
every time that wheel turn round Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #82
I first heard it in The Thomas Crowne Affair. Excellent soundtrack for an excellent movie. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #83
Is this all too complicated for you? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #70
yes yes complicated it is azurnoir Mar 2016 #76
Oh we have all heard of it. We have a secret conclave with regularity, where we exchange silvershadow Mar 2016 #104
hush you're not supposed to tell azurnoir Mar 2016 #142
I've given up trying to explain anything to you.... daleanime Mar 2016 #9
Never heard of you before. But thanks for stopping by. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #11
I once got a forunte cookie that said Gwhittey Mar 2016 #13
Ok so everyone is on board that this isnt an actual thing? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #15
What nobody's stepping up? ismnotwasm Mar 2016 #17
Yeah its weird. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #19
Not really. kristopher Mar 2016 #43
"an actual thing" Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #48
Or you could Google it and see what turns up! JaneyVee Mar 2016 #52
Google is now the determinant for the objective reality of stuff? Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #55
"A big part of reality is 3rd party perspective." -- I'd very much like to think that was JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #56
IRONY: THE SHACKLES OF YOUTH Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #57
Weren't you really thinking "shackles of mind"? Hortensis Mar 2016 #112
No. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #118
Is that why you won't discuss "Bernie or Bust?" Hortensis Mar 2016 #119
Wait, what wont I discuss? Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #120
It was the "Bernie or Bust" movement. Hortensis Mar 2016 #121
Well... I've been here for 12 years, already. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #143
Okay. Have a nice evening. Hortensis Mar 2016 #146
Where do you get your news? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #58
If you think your 'reasoning' corners Warrens in any way, you are sorely mistaken JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #60
Im referring to third party perspectives. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #65
Here, I actually thought maybe we could have an interesting discussion on metaphysics and semantics Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #66
I learned everything I needed to about the poster's intentions with this thread JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #68
And to boot, now I'm stuck in one of those annoying jury loops! Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #73
I'm in one of those too! Weird.... JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #75
Paging Elad. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #78
saying that everything you can find on google is objectively real, isn't logic. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #63
I agree, which is why i never said that. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #67
Are you referring to these truths? JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #71
So Im guessing youre Bernie or Bust? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #79
What a strange post, and a stranger assumption still! Never have I said such a thing in this thread. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #81
It was a question. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #86
This is GDP. It seemed apropos. For followup questions, please refer to post #71. Thanks. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #87
have you ever been to a caucus-race? Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #88
Excellent, sir! JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #92
I don't like to toot my own horn (I'm not that flexible) but I am fairly well informed, as humans go Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #85
Just because it may "exist" somewhere, in someone's mind or thoughts, or even silvershadow Mar 2016 #105
My guess? JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #20
"Charade of democracy". There is no charade, she's winning. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #21
No, I am not saying that. You are saying that, and I disagree JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #22
Again, based on no evidence. Just emotions and opinions. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #23
I never espoused those opinions, I was explaining them to you. You asked a question in your OP... JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #26
No I think i said everything i needed to in my previous post. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #44
Ah, I get it. It's a "mentality". is a "mentality" an actual thing? It's a deeper question than one Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #50
Maybe the problem is that you assume other people engage in "groupthink" Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #24
So youre saying you will vote for the Dem nominee in Nov? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #25
Because they know that if they say Bernie or Bust they'll be banned from DU for a TOS violation. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #28
This has gone off topic. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #32
You make the mistake in assuming they see Hillary as representing them on the issues, whatsoever. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #35
Its absolutely not flawed because.... JaneyVee Mar 2016 #40
The question is one of perception, not whether you personally agree with that perception. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #42
Thats all im trying to do: understand it. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #45
Then you would be better off not arguing against the messenger who is simply relaying the ideas JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #49
Its an internet discussion board. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #51
You asked a question about what Bernie or Busters believed JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #54
Pick a fight? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #59
This post of yours is not discussion centered on the question at hand. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #62
Then why did we continue discussing it further after that? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #74
what's "an actual movement"? Someone writes a petition? A couple people say something on facebook? Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #39
Alert on me again - my 840high Mar 2016 #30
Im sorry, what are you saying? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #33
I've said it like fifty fucking times, now, not that I need to, because that's what I always do. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #38
Huh? Is there a Hillary Or Bust Im not aware of? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #41
You brought up "groupthink". I'm telling you that it's rampant, but maybe not where you think it is. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #46
Clinton is a right-winger, a CONSERVATIVE, look at the issues hillarysong2016 Mar 2016 #27
LOL at the video choices. No thanks. But.... JaneyVee Mar 2016 #36
Thank you for bringing up the twin subjects of unemployment and incarceration side by side hillarysong2016 Mar 2016 #106
... JaneyVee Mar 2016 #107
Because not everyone sees politics as a team sport Armstead Mar 2016 #31
I endorse that sentiment in fact. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #34
I said progressive movement, not any political party's. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #37
No need. These 50,000 people have political freedom same as you or I do. PatrickforO Mar 2016 #47
So we shouldnt make an effort to reach out? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #53
Ah, see, now you're talking. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #69
The playbook that is nabbing more vote totals than any other candidate while... JaneyVee Mar 2016 #89
Yeah, who would think the inevitable and presumed front-runner might get more votes than the unknown Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #90
5 candidates = 5 GOTV campaigns. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #94
You wanted to focus on November, I thought. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #100
Having a more diverse electorate and higher vote totals doesn't mean your ideas are better. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #93
Please refer to post 89 for further questions. Thanks. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #96
Uh...that is the post I responded to, and refuted. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #97
Better ideas are in the eye of the beholder. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #98
If Bernie is not elected Gwhittey Mar 2016 #72
I could watch that over and over again. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #84
Tell Hillary she is wrong if she thinks we will unite just because she claims to be a Democrat. Live and Learn Mar 2016 #91
I would prefer just to let it be a surprise for them. They do not understand what JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #95
You are right. They really don't. nt Live and Learn Mar 2016 #99
Roughly, some people have persuaded themselves that Clinton is not progressive Recursion Mar 2016 #101
IMO, for most it's a protective hypocrisy adopted Hortensis Mar 2016 #117
Joining Bernie or Bust is not about tossing progressivism JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #126
Congratuations. An actual statement. Hortensis Mar 2016 #128
And you equate abandoning progressivism with not voting straight democratic ticket? JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #136
Yes, your statement IS ludicrous, isn't it? Hortensis Mar 2016 #138
because retrowire Mar 2016 #102
Post removed Post removed Mar 2016 #108
Tangile concern for the issues . . . . . pdsimdars Mar 2016 #109
What America needs is four parties. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #113
Clinton embodies everything that is wrong with our party. No, she can not unite us with her RiverLover Mar 2016 #114
well - I cannot think of a more effective project to help ANY RWer move their campaigns forward DrDan Mar 2016 #116
What I see is a lot of Clinton supporters Bettie Mar 2016 #122
Not this time. I am done voting for the lesser of two evils. Katashi_itto Mar 2016 #125
My kids are still young Bettie Mar 2016 #132
Thats your right and I respect that. Given the Choice between a Madman and a Corporate Operative Katashi_itto Mar 2016 #135
I respect your opinion too Bettie Mar 2016 #137
Agree, we must try to do what we think is best. Katashi_itto Mar 2016 #139
Not sure about this organization or petition whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #123
But how is that progressive? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #131
Sorry whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #134
Why bother your pretty little head about it? Avalux Mar 2016 #130
The Democratic Party's reaction to McGovern loss. ieoeja Mar 2016 #144
Easily, we feel Hillary is not a Progressive. Motown_Johnny Mar 2016 #147
Interesting question. H2O Man Mar 2016 #148
 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
110. good point malokvale
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 07:35 AM
Mar 2016

we've tried explaining but nothing gets through. .. . any issue we have with Hillary is never addressed, they just attack the messenger. . .and that's what I think this post is, a passive-aggressive put down of Bernie supporters.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
111. Here's part of the American Values Project manifesto on
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 07:59 AM
Mar 2016

"what it means to be a progressive."

"... the central progressive message is one of fairness and equality:

Our approach is simple to summarize and is built upon the ideas of generations of progressives from Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama:

Everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does his or her fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. As progressives, we believe that everyone deserves a fair shot at a decent, fulfilling, and economically secure life. We believe that everyone should do his or her fair share to build this life through education and hard work and through active participation in public life. And we believe that everyone should play by the same set of rules with no special privileges for the well-connected or wealthy.


Progressivism is inherently liberal and arose with liberalsm from the Enlightenment. Both Hillary and Bernie are progressive. The Democratic Party is progressive. Almost all liberals and far-lefters are progressive.

"Bernie or Bust" is a plan to throw progressivism itself under the bus if a majority of voters don't choose its supporters' favorite candidate. Obviously, this is inconsonant with the principles of fairness and equality for everyone that are intrinsic to progressivism.

These true believers see themselves as a righteous elite, The Only Ones Who See, and thus The Only Ones Who Can Save America, but if they go forward with this they will just be really bad losers who have abandoned their goals.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
124. "progressivism"
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:38 AM
Mar 2016

by this loose definition you would include Hillary, at least what she gives lip service to.

But Hillary is certainly not what I think of as progressive. She is Status Quo.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
127. This is PROGRESSIVEVALUES.ORG's definition, MG.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:11 AM
Mar 2016

Not mine.

Although they have some good moments, it might reassure you to know that this site is maintained by people mostly to my left, some of whom actually remind me of the extreme partisanship here. In fact, one article actually lumps Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton and Obama into one conservative economic reganism-obamaism continuum. The author dresses it up with a lot of history-referencing verbage, but it's largely just the usual far-left partisan rejection of Democrats. They maintain a rather elegantly designed site and know how to sound high minded, but I'm pretty sure behind the scenes chortling over anti-Hillary lies is going on these days.

And yet, as you yourself recognized, the definition they worked over so thoughtfully absolutely includes Hillary, and the rest of the Democratic Party and all liberals, including me. Go figure.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
129. OK
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:36 AM
Mar 2016

not familiar with it--will check it out. I'm just saying that what people think of as "progressive" varies a lot. We may not all be singing Kumbaya in the big tent anymore.

Whether it's an "extreme" view or not, I do think it is fair to say that there is a conservative continuum over the last decades that includes both Dems and R's. This is the result of DLC influence, among other factors. The DLC was the wrong direction for the Democratic party--and Bill and Hill were part of that conservative alliance. Pragmatic, perhaps, maybe the best we could do at the time you could argue--but allowing for a lot of the horrors and abuses we are witnessing today. It's just not working.

I don't think that Hillary can bring about significant changes in this country. She is way too heavily invested in the status quo, with all its corruption and excess, so damaging to real Democracy. It's what she had to do to get where she is--OK, but that's not saying much at this point. I admire the candidate who has, to a far greater extent, stuck to his principles from day one. I am voting for the candidate this time--not so much the party.

thx for your reply

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
133. I agree that in the 1990s the party crossed lines
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:47 AM
Mar 2016

to the right that should never have been crossed in its attempt to maintain power and get some things done. But it largely came back and did so some time ago.

We can agree that, regardless of their ideology, in practice our representatives are far too interested in protecting their own jobs and power, but that's an effect of the corruption that would infect Bernie's people also -- almost as soon as they got membership in the DC winners' circle and within sight of those go-for-the-gold lobbying careers.

The problem in 2016 isn't that we're too far right. We're not. The problem is that our representatives are much too protective of their DC membership to put themselves out for principle.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
141. So
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:33 PM
Mar 2016

if I read you correctly-- the disease of corruption is part of the system, and Bernie & Co. would succumb to the disease once in office. So that's a given? But there's no evidence for that statement. I think his record shows otherwise.

How do you see the Dem party as "coming back" exactly--without real reform.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
115. Can't or won't? "Bernie or Bust" is obviously,
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:17 AM
Mar 2016

demonstrated by dozens of refusals to discuss, embarrassing to some. Yet not embarrassing enough to stand up and reject.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
140. One article unbelievably claims Bust stems from "organic integrity."
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:26 PM
Mar 2016

Sure, who doubts that "organic integrity" comes very easily to the kind of righteous zealots who flocked to Elizabeth Warren, then Bernie, and are now considering joining Bust as they see the end down the road.

However, other infamous characteristics also include a tendency to burst into flame and turn on literally anyone at any provocation, as witness the egregious attacks on our most powerful progressive leader, Warren.

But to use "organic integrity" in connection with Bust, which is asking a commitment to literally abandon progressive integrity and principles and give aid and comfort to the implacable enemies of progressivism? Unbelievable hypocrisy.

Response to litlbilly (Reply #4)

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
104. Oh we have all heard of it. We have a secret conclave with regularity, where we exchange
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:48 AM
Mar 2016

coded messages.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
142. hush you're not supposed to tell
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:04 PM
Mar 2016

but they still don't know the super duper top secret entry code, and if you don't know that it could 'appear' to be a website started last summer based on working to get Bernie nominated

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
9. I've given up trying to explain anything to you....
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:05 AM
Mar 2016

sorry about that. But have a lovely evening anyways.

 

Gwhittey

(1,377 posts)
13. I once got a forunte cookie that said
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:08 AM
Mar 2016

"One who bases one knowledge off twitter hashtags and what they read on internet forum are"
That was all that was on the paper as it ran out of room to finish I guess, anyone got a guess what it would say?

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
48. "an actual thing"
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:33 AM
Mar 2016


Like "berniebros", it's an expression someone somewhere on the internet is talking about. Whether that makes it "an actual thing" i suppose depends on how one defines "thing".

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
55. Google is now the determinant for the objective reality of stuff?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:41 AM
Mar 2016

Thank God, that means that something like 60% of reality is nekkid ladies. Sweet.


ETA: "3rd Party Perspective", well done on the double entendre.


JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
56. "A big part of reality is 3rd party perspective." -- I'd very much like to think that was
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:42 AM
Mar 2016

unintentional snark.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
118. No.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:36 AM
Mar 2016

But then, consistency is the small knob-gobbling hobgoblin from gobbler's knob.

Abraham Lincoln said that.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
119. Is that why you won't discuss "Bernie or Bust?"
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:04 AM
Mar 2016

The notion of a thread having a subject just a shackle on small minds?

Here is a scenario: It's this time next year and it turned out to be BUST for you guys. Either BS or HC lost to President Rubio or we have another President Clinton working with a bare Democratic majority Senate to force what she imagines to be progressive changes through as best she can, step by partial step.

What are you doing in this scenario? Are you launched on 8 years of denying any progress can or will be made under Clinton or on 8 years of blaming Hillary and liberals for electing Rubio? Will you be here at DU?

In any possible scenario, do you expect another decade of complaining and arguing that liberals are not "real" progressives to be worthy and satisfying?

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
120. Wait, what wont I discuss?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:07 AM
Mar 2016

Please, tell me what it is I'm saying.

Or shit, just find someone to create an account that will say whatever ... The fuck that was, you just tried to shoehorn into my mouth, and blargle it at them. Okay?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
121. It was the "Bernie or Bust" movement.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:16 AM
Mar 2016

And now I've asked how you see yourself spending the next decade of your life, politically, if it's "bust." No matter which party wins the White House on November 6, it is highly unlikely we will have a President Sanders, after all. It's not too early to wonder.



Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
143. Well... I've been here for 12 years, already.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 05:36 PM
Mar 2016

So if you want to make some authoritative statements as to what I, personally, do or don't believe, you can start by looking at the shit I've actually said, instead of arguing with one of these.



 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
58. Where do you get your news?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:46 AM
Mar 2016

See how easily your logic disintegrates? You are being sanctimonious about something you also participate in everyday.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
60. If you think your 'reasoning' corners Warrens in any way, you are sorely mistaken
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:49 AM
Mar 2016

Internet commentary is quite a different kettle of fish than news via the Internet.

Your reasoning for why Warren's logic "disintegrates" is actually quite laughable and false on its fac.e

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
65. Im referring to third party perspectives.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:52 AM
Mar 2016

The news doesnt channel into your brain, you get it from an actual source.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
66. Here, I actually thought maybe we could have an interesting discussion on metaphysics and semantics
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:52 AM
Mar 2016

ah, but alas, I am in GDP, where all that happens is team B and team C throwing poop at each other.

C'est La Vie.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
68. I learned everything I needed to about the poster's intentions with this thread
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:55 AM
Mar 2016

via Post #28 and the subsequent downthread. Quite disheartening.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
78. Paging Elad.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:01 AM
Mar 2016

It happens, occasionally. Obviously there's a system bug. I'll put something in ATA about it right now.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
67. I agree, which is why i never said that.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:54 AM
Mar 2016

But there is also plenty of truth out there. Start researching!

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
85. I don't like to toot my own horn (I'm not that flexible) but I am fairly well informed, as humans go
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:10 AM
Mar 2016

but thanks.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
105. Just because it may "exist" somewhere, in someone's mind or thoughts, or even
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:54 AM
Mar 2016

as an idea hatched on the internet, makes it a "thing". That doesn't mean it is organized. That doesn't mean everyone has heard of it, or approves (or disapproves for that matter) of it. We are not a monolith. PS: Berniebros is probably a term fist coined in Karl Rove's stink tank, and he thanks you for keeping it alive.

You sure do have a lot of posts for someone who has only been here since 2012. I'm going to have a gander at some of them to see what you are about.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
20. My guess?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:26 AM
Mar 2016

The realization that Clinton has no intention of fulfilling any kind of progressive presidency. Why reward the party (the DNC, largely, for setting up a race with massive advantages for Hillary) for backing a candidate who only pretends to care about the issues that we care about? I imagine the Bernie or Bust crowd (not identifying myself as one such person, necessarily, mind you) is pretty fed up with the charade of democracy when the party can put its finger on the scale, when party leaders are publicly supportive of one candidate over another, and when the candidate offered to us is a corrupt politician who will lie and shape shift on a range of topics as needed to obtain votes.

In this view, the question isn't why Bernie or Bust, it is "why the hell would I vote for Hillary?"

*Note to jury: I am not advocating for any of these ideas, I am explaining to JaneyVee how persons caring deeply about the issues can still vow never to back the nominee. My personal feelings on the subject, I choose to keep off DU.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
21. "Charade of democracy". There is no charade, she's winning.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:35 AM
Mar 2016

So youre saying the Bernie or Bust mentality is based on a conspiracy theory ginned up in there own imaginations which led them to despise a candidate enough based on their own imaginary scenario to allow Trump to pick SCOTUS?

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
22. No, I am not saying that. You are saying that, and I disagree
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:42 AM
Mar 2016

The charade is debates scheduled ad hoc, at first to discourage too many people from gaining a thorough look at the candidates (why O'Malley never had a chance, for example) and then in a dramatic shift, adding debates as it helped Clinton. DWS, the chair of the supposedly neutral DNC saying that Bernie is not a real Democrat. The tactics are transparent.

Or consider this excerpt from Politico:

While Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and press secretary Brian Fallon were agitating about their claims of deeply damaging high crimes out of Vermont in a call with reporters, with Sanders’ state staffers nervously listening in, the lawyers from the campaigns and the DNC were on the phone with the judge. The judge left Sanders’ team with the distinct impression that she was going to rule for them, and within hours, the Clinton campaign sent a turnaround statement urging the DNC to back down. The DNC reversed itself and let the Sanders campaign back into the database late that night.


http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-2016-inside-213692?o=1
 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
23. Again, based on no evidence. Just emotions and opinions.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:46 AM
Mar 2016

And it was Bernie's team who breached data.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
26. I never espoused those opinions, I was explaining them to you. You asked a question in your OP...
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:01 AM
Mar 2016

If you want to have an argument with an avowed Bernie or Buster, you will have to find someone outside of DU to engage in that discussion, for I certainly will not.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
50. Ah, I get it. It's a "mentality". is a "mentality" an actual thing? It's a deeper question than one
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:35 AM
Mar 2016

might think.

Like whether or not the flying spaghetti monster is a "real" Deity.

Is the thought of a unicorn a real thought?

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
24. Maybe the problem is that you assume other people engage in "groupthink"
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:51 AM
Mar 2016

Not everyone does.

I suppose if "groupthink" is what one is used to seeing all the time, in their own circles, they might imagine it is everywhere.

FWIW, I will call "bernie or bust" what it is, namely the 2016 version of PUMA. No thanks.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
25. So youre saying you will vote for the Dem nominee in Nov?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:56 AM
Mar 2016

I was actually looking for someone who will not unless its Bernie to explain. They seem to be missing now.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
28. Because they know that if they say Bernie or Bust they'll be banned from DU for a TOS violation.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:02 AM
Mar 2016

Bernie supporters here aren't quite as clueless as you seem to think we are.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
32. This has gone off topic.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:10 AM
Mar 2016

My point was basically: is there an actual movement that would throw all of their concern about the issues out the window unless their preferred candidate is elevated to power? If so, how real was that concern. Many arent as privileged to go uneffected by spitefully allowing Trump to pick SCOTUS. Do you think the Bernie or Bust crowd would come around in solidarity on the issues or leave concern at the door?

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
35. You make the mistake in assuming they see Hillary as representing them on the issues, whatsoever.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:15 AM
Mar 2016

They do not see it that way.

So your premise is flawed.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
42. The question is one of perception, not whether you personally agree with that perception.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:28 AM
Mar 2016

It is a matter of understanding the other side vs. agreement with that position.

I think that's it for me, absent an effort to understand what Bernie or Bust is really about rather than snidely dismiss and lecture them.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
54. You asked a question about what Bernie or Busters believed
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:40 AM
Mar 2016

I relayed that information. Then you tried to pick a fight over whether they were sensible, as if I had to agree with them simply by understanding where they are coming from.

It's bad form to ask a question, allegedly in good faith, about how a group of people think and then attack the messenger for relaying their thinking as actually espousing said beliefs. If you cannot understand how that might be considered rude, then we really have nothing further to discuss.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
39. what's "an actual movement"? Someone writes a petition? A couple people say something on facebook?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:22 AM
Mar 2016

Are there going to be Sanders supporters who won't pull the D lever if the nominee is Hillary? Sure.

I'd advise waiting to have those conversations until we actually have a nominee, but that's just me.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
33. Im sorry, what are you saying?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:12 AM
Mar 2016

I dont alert on anyone. I dont even have anyone on ignore. Its only the internet.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
38. I've said it like fifty fucking times, now, not that I need to, because that's what I always do.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:20 AM
Mar 2016

FWIW, far and away the worst examples of "groupthink" I've seen in the past 8 months have all come from Hillary supporters here, but unlike some people I don't let what some yarblocko on the internet says influence my political decisionmaking.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
46. You brought up "groupthink". I'm telling you that it's rampant, but maybe not where you think it is.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:31 AM
Mar 2016

and I could run down the myriad examples, but honestly certain strains of mindlessly repeated nonsensical flatuations have already gotten way more airtime than they deserve.

I said before, Bernie or Bust is PUMA version 2016, which, BTW, was the original "Hillary or Bust".

It was stupid then, it's stupid now. Of course people should support the nominee.

 

hillarysong2016

(83 posts)
27. Clinton is a right-winger, a CONSERVATIVE, look at the issues
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:02 AM
Mar 2016

Destroy over half century of aid to single mothers during the 1990s? Check. One of Hillary's many, massive attacks on women and children, so the head explodes at how she can get away with calling herself a champion of these groups; but there's more,

Demean single mothers as "deadbeats" in the 1990s? Check. Just kidding. Hillary demeaned single mothers at least as recently as 2002 as "deadbeats" while defending the 1990s assault on lower income women and children...check.

Was for NAFTA? Check.

Believes the U.S. should continue to be one of the few western countries in the world with death penalty, and where healthcare is a "market commodity"? Check and check for Hillary.

Pushed for Fracking in the U.S. and around the world too? Check:



Claimed pro-NAFTA was a "mistake"? and but now tells us we should like the ultra-NAFTA TPPP, TransPacific corporate trade deal? Check.

Voted for Iraq war leading to thousands of dead Americans and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis including dead Women and Children (but brown skinned, so Hillary can still call herself a champion of Women and Children, right?) and estimated 3 Trillion dollar long term cost? Check on all three.

Helped massive incarceration increase in 1990s to explode? While talking not about rehabilitating adults, not even rehabilitating kids, but telling us that even minors are "super-predators" who, Hillary told us, "have absolutely no conscience or empathy" so "lock 'em up" while trying to scare the public, led to explosion in prison even though crime had already peaked:



Claimed Iraq vote was a "mistake" that she "learned from" (It wasn't a mistake, it was a political calculation, anyone paying attention knew it was a scam that war...Her defenders must thing she was both stupid and incompetent to be "fooled" she was not, she is not kind or empathetic or progressive but she is very smart, cold calculating smart, but smart) But let's assume it really was a "mistake"

Did Hillary "learn from" that mistake? Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, reminds us Hillary only pushed for the same thing in Libya, leading to another disaster:



Not getting into what "or bust" means, it's different for each person..some of us are in states where it's not even close, so there's always Dr. Jill Stein of the Greens...others have a more difficult tactical choice to make if right-wing Hillary Clinton (who is more right wing than Trump on the whole regime change, bomb, invade, occupy thing...though Trump is obviously worse in other ways) and I do not envy them that difficult choice..

But if "or bust" means, "or else our changes of getting a liberal, never MIND a progressive" will be "bust" (unless someone runs third party who can win) then of course they are right: a right-winger like Hillary, who was able to destroy more than Reagan could in some big areas of social programs, that is indeed "bust" for any hopes of an actual progressive or even liberal...she isn't even liberal on foreign policy, and only in some areas domestically (she's not liberal on civil liberties, Patriot Act, corporate trade, public non-profit healthcare, or scores of other areas, not even liberal)

I'm not even including another set of hundreds of thousands of women and children Hillary's policies have killed off long before the 2003 Iraq war...But like white American women who are low income or moderate income, their massive killing doesn't preventt, mind bogglingly, doesn't stop Hillary from calling herself a champion of women and children, it's almost as crazy as Kissinger being given a Nobel Peace prize...oh, wait..





"Tangible issues"? Yeah, I think we've mentioned a dozen or so extremely tangible ones, but that won't stop the "you just don't like her personally" charges and other victim playing charges from some of her supporters...who, in fact, are the ones refusing to know about and acknowledge the above tangible issues..

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
36. LOL at the video choices. No thanks. But....
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:18 AM
Mar 2016

Under Bill Clinton: 25 Million jobs. Longest stretch of peacetime in US history. Lowest black unemployment in US history. And a budget surplus!

And sorry, but youre not going to fake meme your way into the WH: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/11/10961362/clinton-1994-crime-law

 

hillarysong2016

(83 posts)
106. Thank you for bringing up the twin subjects of unemployment and incarceration side by side
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:59 AM
Mar 2016

No replies about mass-murder and Trillions spent on wars on lies and on fracking and corporate trade positions of Hillary...or mass killing of women and children thanks to her Wars in not only Iraq but Libya, not a word about that...silence I guess means, "no big deal, beating the crap out of single mothers and women in the third world doesn't count...doesn't bother me one bit" and instead brining up "but, but, but the economy was great in 1990s!"

Which is kind of funny since we hear so often, from Hillary supporters, "She is not the same as her Husband, don't blame her for bad things under him!" except it WAS her policies in the case of the ones I mentioned, it wasn't just Bill, it was Hillary promoting those disastrous things in the 1990s and beyond...But you support Hillary it's not enough to pretend the bad things were "only Bill's doing" you also have to pretend the "good things" were her doing, like economic boom? Very amusing...but putting all that aside...thank you for brining up "black unemployment" and incarceration side by side, 'cause it brings up this:

An oft-repeated myth about the Clinton administration is that although it was overly tough on crime back in the 1990s, at least its policies were good for the economy and for black unemployment rates. The truth is more troubling. As unemployment rates sank to historically low levels for white Americans in the 1990s, the jobless rate among black men in their 20s who didn’t have a college degree rose to its highest level ever. This increase in joblessness was propelled by the skyrocketing incarceration rate.

Why is this not common knowledge? Because government statistics like poverty and unemployment rates do not include incarcerated people. As Harvard sociologist Bruce Western explains: “Much of the optimism about declines in racial inequality and the power of the US model of economic growth is misplaced once we account for the invisible poor, behind the walls of America’s prisons and jails.”

When Clinton left office in 2001, the true jobless rate for young, non-college-educated black men (including those behind bars) was 42 percent. This figure was never reported. Instead, the media claimed that unemployment rates for African Americans had fallen to record lows, neglecting to mention that this miracle was possible only because incarceration rates were now at record highs. Young black men weren’t looking for work at high rates during the Clinton era because they were now behind bars [so not counted in official unemployement stats]—out of sight, out of mind, and no longer counted in poverty and unemployment statistics.
http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/


So while I never give any President, Republican or Democrat, full "credit" or "blame" for when the economy is booming or busting since it's complex, let alone use that as a reason to vote for their spouse who was busy throwing poor men in jail and throwing poor single women, single mothers, off of support and calling them deadbeats, it turns out, what do you know? Even the "good" (which Hillary couldn't take credit for even if it had been real) turns out to be have been a fraud, too..

This won't change the minds of those for whom facts don't matter, but there are those with open mind that Bernie supporters can inform with these seldom talked about facts
 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
107. ...
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 05:22 AM
Mar 2016

Bernie voted for crime bill, guns 5x, deregulate Wall St (2000), against 2007 immigration, against closing Gitmo. Hillary did not. He also voted for more wars and war funding than any candidate running. How many have died per year from his war and gun votes? He even voted for Afghanistan and Libya.

Feel free to fact check it all.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
31. Because not everyone sees politics as a team sport
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:08 AM
Mar 2016

They don't identify withbthe Democrats becausevthey see no committment to fundamental principles. They are more concerned with supporting candidates whom represent their values over loyalty to some nebulous institutionsl entity,

I do not endorse that, but I certainly understand it.

PatrickforO

(14,556 posts)
47. No need. These 50,000 people have political freedom same as you or I do.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:33 AM
Mar 2016

They can think how they want, and they can vote how they want. Since neither you nor I can control them, nor should we want to, maybe we should not worry about them any more than we did about the Pumas back in 08.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
69. Ah, see, now you're talking.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:55 AM
Mar 2016

I've said for a while Hillary needs to do a better job. The playbook she's been running is woefully dated and not suited to a 21st Century Campaign.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
89. The playbook that is nabbing more vote totals than any other candidate while...
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:16 AM
Mar 2016

Having the most diverse electorate of any candidate running. Ok.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
90. Yeah, who would think the inevitable and presumed front-runner might get more votes than the unknown
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:18 AM
Mar 2016

self-described socialist Senator?

In terms of "vote totals", how's that turnout thing working against the GOP's so far? Seen those numbers? I think they're "out there" speaking of the google.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
100. You wanted to focus on November, I thought.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:34 AM
Mar 2016

I've figured all along that she would probably be the nominee. Sanders always faced long odds, one of my hopes would be that he would force HRC to run a more substantive, issues-oriented campaign as opposed to the meaningless pablum and gibberish she was pretty clearly set to roll on at the beginning ("everyday Americans", etc)

That has happened a bit, but like I said, she's still running a set of 1990s style campaign strategies woefully out of whack for the 21st century political reality we face today. That's my opinion, since I want her to win if she's the nominee I have a vested interest in expressing it, but obviously not everyone is gonna agree.

Other than that I just hope we're not looking at some FBI indictment shoe dropping between the Convention and the GE. It'll be tough to blame THAT sort of clusterfuckerry on "berniebros", although I have no doubt some will try.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
93. Having a more diverse electorate and higher vote totals doesn't mean your ideas are better.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:19 AM
Mar 2016

The two issues are rather clearly orthogonal.

This is more than a horserace where one side "wins" and the other "loses" so that it is better to be on the "winning" team.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
97. Uh...that is the post I responded to, and refuted.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:24 AM
Mar 2016

Quite a failure in logic, to think that merely repeating oneself is a refutation of my assertion.

 

Gwhittey

(1,377 posts)
72. If Bernie is not elected
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 03:56 AM
Mar 2016

I am voting for Steve Gold Austin Because he is only man on Earth who can stop Trump. I saw him knock trump on his ass.

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)
91. Tell Hillary she is wrong if she thinks we will unite just because she claims to be a Democrat.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:18 AM
Mar 2016

We are done being enablers.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
95. I would prefer just to let it be a surprise for them. They do not understand what
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:22 AM
Mar 2016

people are feeling or why they are voting, so it is impossible to reason with them. Explanations for why calls of party unity fail are similarly poorly-received, as this thread shows.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
101. Roughly, some people have persuaded themselves that Clinton is not progressive
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:44 AM
Mar 2016

It's silly, it's juvenile, and it's demonstrably false, but it's driving a large part of the campaign emotion.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
117. IMO, for most it's a protective hypocrisy adopted
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:05 AM
Mar 2016

to "justify" an extreme partisanship that cannot otherwise be justified.

What is unacceptable about admitting that Hillary is progressive but does not go nearly far enough for them? For me nothing, but that would require accepting her as one of them, just not with them, and a rigid refusal to validate any differences from them by acceptance is a defining characteristic. From there the course is inevitable: Disagreement with extremists on both right and left inevitably results in hostility, rejection and aggression, and so

Hillary was the first major progressive leader they tossed under the bus -- this election. Obama met his fate with them long ago.

Question: No, it's not why are so many here not flat denouncing the Bernie or Bust campaign; hyperpartisaniship and the spector of loss provide that answer. It is this: For those very few who actually do join the Bernie or Bust campaign and finish up the election by tossing progressivism itself under the bus, where do they go from there?

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
126. Joining Bernie or Bust is not about tossing progressivism
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:03 AM
Mar 2016

It is about voting ideas over party unification, a party that works actively against progressives.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
128. Congratuations. An actual statement.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:13 AM
Mar 2016

I couldn't agree with you less.

If some abandon progressivism if Bernie loses, has it occurred to you that maybe this wasn't really all about progressivism? I don't mean there were no progressive dreams, but just that for them Bernie-ism was mostly just a way of acting out against the Democratic establishment?

Like their counterparts on the far right who are supporting Trump to give the finger to the GOP establishment?

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
136. And you equate abandoning progressivism with not voting straight democratic ticket?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:03 PM
Mar 2016

Someone should let Vermont and Maine know, because they keep voting for Independents over Democrats and Republicans.

Obviously I could not disagree more with that position, which I find ludicrous.

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
102. because
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:45 AM
Mar 2016

1) some are caught up in passion and may not mean it.

2) some mean it and have had enough with playing the game by the establishments rules.

shrugs* lol

Response to JaneyVee (Original post)

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
109. Tangile concern for the issues . . . . .
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 07:32 AM
Mar 2016

Bernie has put out details about the plans in most areas and how he will fund them. . .Hillary has not. .. . all Hillary says is,"We can't do what Bernie says and I can do a better job."

Let's see something tangible and maybe there will be a conversation.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
113. What America needs is four parties.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:13 AM
Mar 2016

A Clinton-Obama Democratic party, a Trump Republican-Nationalist party, a Kasich-Republican party, and a Sanders Independent party. That way every voter would get to vote for a party aligned with their interests The Clinton-Obama Democratic party would get at least 40% of the vote and the three remaining parties can fight over the remaining sixty percent.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
114. Clinton embodies everything that is wrong with our party. No, she can not unite us with her
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:15 AM
Mar 2016

lying secretive triangulating corporate third ways.

DrDan

(20,411 posts)
116. well - I cannot think of a more effective project to help ANY RWer move their campaigns forward
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:38 AM
Mar 2016

hence, I wonder about its origins.

I think one might be more successful finding intersectionality between BoB and RNC/anyGOPcampaign.

Lord knows this would be the place to float that petition.

Bettie

(16,049 posts)
122. What I see is a lot of Clinton supporters
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:29 AM
Mar 2016

doing their level best to alienate and malign Sanders supporters so that they will have a very hard time voting for her.

Many of us probably will eventually vote for her should she be the nominee, but it will not be with enthusiasm or hope, simply with resignation over again, choosing the lesser of two evils.

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
125. Not this time. I am done voting for the lesser of two evils.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:56 AM
Mar 2016

The Hillary supporters just solidified up my determination.

Bettie

(16,049 posts)
132. My kids are still young
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:46 AM
Mar 2016

and I do believe that Trump would be worse.

So, I'll hold my nose and vote for her.

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
135. Thats your right and I respect that. Given the Choice between a Madman and a Corporate Operative
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:53 AM
Mar 2016

who has an agenda for TPP,to Privatize SSA (look at her picks for treasury), more war, will do nothing about climate change.

I think the madman can actually do less damage.

Bettie

(16,049 posts)
137. I respect your opinion too
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:07 PM
Mar 2016

We all have to do what we think is best.

I am tired of seeing our country sold to the highest corporate bidder, but Trump is just such an embarrassment.

I, do, however, love that Sanders is forcing a conversation that would never, ever have happened if we had the victory march/coronation that Clinton supporters expected.

At least the issues that affect non-1% people are out there. They wouldn't have even been discussed in the victory march/coronation model.

Clinton is modifying her speeches to include talk about the common folk. I just wish I had confidence that she actually means any of it.

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
139. Agree, we must try to do what we think is best.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:11 PM
Mar 2016

I agree with you.

Personally I think she will pivot 180 once she gets office and put the US on a fire sale. I think within 3-4 years we will look like Greece.

I wish you the best of fortune, no matter how it goes!

Kōun no saikō no

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
123. Not sure about this organization or petition
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:32 AM
Mar 2016

Seems like a waste of time when all I have to do is not vote for Hillary on Election Day.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
131. But how is that progressive?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:45 AM
Mar 2016

I mean, is modern progressivism solely about electing one person, or does it stand in solidarity with allies against the rightwing all out assault on our rights?

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
130. Why bother your pretty little head about it?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:40 AM
Mar 2016

Labeling Bernie supporters such things won't get their votes if the time comes. If you think the Dem base will all of a sudden come together and sing Kumbaya with Hillary you're deluding yourself.

 

ieoeja

(9,748 posts)
144. The Democratic Party's reaction to McGovern loss.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 06:19 PM
Mar 2016

Lost badly because:

o incumbent
o good economy
o Vietnam War winding down (536k in 1968 vs only 24k in 1972)
o Cold War winding down (Détente; Reagan tried putting the genie back in the bottle, but could not)
o lost the votes of Moderate

Most of those points were lost on Democrats after the 49-1 loss. All they concentrate on, then and still now, is the loss of those Moderate voters. So the Party moved Right.

If we lose Moderate votes then we must be too Liberal.
If we lose Liberal votes then we must be too Conservative.

Same logic.


 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
147. Easily, we feel Hillary is not a Progressive.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 06:45 PM
Mar 2016

If Hillary sets the standard for the Democratic party, then Progressives no longer have a party.


We can now argue about Hillary being Progressive or not, but that is a different discussion. You asked someone to explain why some people feel it is "Bernie or Bust". The answer is that Bernie is the only Progressive in the race.






H2O Man

(73,476 posts)
148. Interesting question.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 07:45 PM
Mar 2016

I'll recommend the OP.

"Progressives" includes a span of people. There are progressives who are registered in the Democratic Party, and progressives among the Democratic Left. The vast majority of them support Bernie Sanders for president. Some on the far-left consider Bernie as too far to the right.

Progressives are joined by the majority of young adults. And there are numerous other groups supporting Bernie. who you've never heard of. No single one of them may have access to socio-political power, but united, they seem to be doing pretty good.

I would agree that most registered Democrats will vote in November. And I don't think there will be many Trump votes from DU, either. I do think it's important to note that Trump's influence has resulted in a real bump in voter participation. I do not think that one of the Democratic candidates has the ability to get that type of potential voter to the polls. More, I think that campaign wrote off the Democratic Left months ago.

I respect that you support Hillary Clinton. I enjoy reading your contributions to the DU:GDP discussion.

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