Einstein sums up Bernie:Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

[Skwmom]

The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. (Albert Einstein).

That's our Bernie!

I think this would make a great poster.

[Ned_Devine]

1. That sums up this whole primary experience

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Well of course. Everybody knows this. He's been declared the Savior so why not Einstein too?

I guess the 3 million and counting more people who voted for not Sanders are just going to have to suffer through life with velcro shoes and picture menus.

[Live and Learn]

3. Thank you for proving the point. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

6. oh c'mon. it was funny. n/t

[Skwmom]

4. I didn't say he was Einstein. However, I think it sums up Bernie rather nicely.

I have a framed poster with this quote. It is one of my favorite sayings.

[truedelphi]

7. It does sum up Bernie quite well, and also how the Oligarchy deals with him.

I was so happy on Saturday at all the little kids under the age of ten who just loved to clap at the dressed up cars and the marchers who were in the local Memorial Day Parade. A whole inter-generational "Hey Yeah Bernie" kinda thing.

That gave me hope.

[passiveporcupine]

9. I was just thinking about this earlier today (how the Oligarchy treats him)

Or how the democratic party treats him (which is part of the Oligarchy)

There have been a lot of complaints here about Bernie not being a real Dem, and that justifies so many people not accepting him as a legitimate democratic candidate in this campaign. If he were a real Dem he'd be part of the party establishment. It's only fair that the party establishment backed Hillary from the very beginning because she is a real Dem. It's only fair that so many superdelegates came out for her right away and it took a long time for Bernie to even get a few. It's the party, the brand name, we need to protect, always. It's fault for being an Independent.

Well, I disagree. I think that even if Bernie had been a Dem his whole life, he would still be the same person and even though he might call himself a Dem, he'd always stick to his beliefs and fight for what is good for the people over the party. He'd still vote for Dems over republicans, but he wouldn't have voted any differently than he did as an Independent. He'd still be fighting for the disenfranchised, like he always has. And the Democratic establishment still would have treated him the same in this race. The media would have ignored him and the DNC would have put all their effort into Hillary, the real "establishment" player, just like they are now. The well off and wealthy people would still be backing Hillary.

Because Bernie is not a player. He's well off, but not wealthy and he's not always competing for power. He never had the ambition to run for President until he saw the developing anger and realized the time was right for the American spring...and we didn't have a leader. So he stepped in to help us. He's just a working stiff whose trying to make the country a better place for it's people. All it's people.

Anyone who says he's not a real Dem doesn't really have a case against him...because he's always voted with the Dems, and his platform is FDR Democrat. So yeah, it doesn't matter what he calls himself. He is a Dem, but the establishment (which left liberal ideology behind a while back) would have still gone for Clinton because the establishment (Oligarchy) does not want a revolution. They want someone who will keep things going pretty much the way they are now. Which is not good for the majority of people in the US.

Just had to get that off my chest. Not aimed at you...you just reminded me of it.

[truedelphi]

13. Oh, I knew it was not aimed at me.

It was aimed at all the people on this board who would come on back in the day to dis Kucinich.

Or to put down Cindy Sheehan.

Or who let us know how lucky we were that we could vote for the "Lesser of Two Evils."

And also the people here who claim that Ron Reagan was the beginning and end of civilization in the USA, but those same people structured their companies in such disgusting ways that they too would file for bankruptcy plans that would destroy the companies they inherited. And then they would use the workers' pensions to pay for the Golden Parachute that made them wealthy even though they ran good companies into the ground. But they voted for Dems, so that somehow made them unable to see the irony in blaming everything on Reagan.

[Jester Messiah]

5. Violent and entrenched opposition.

Shame we had to get shot in the back by our erstwhile "allies."

[ecstatic]

8. "express his opinions courageously and honestly"

1. He seems to get really angry and tight lipped when asked anything outside of the favorite talking points. He shouts down interviewers and /or exits. Recently, he was asked to discuss socialism in Latin America-- he refused to answer and became extremely agitated. How is that courageous?

2. When did Bernie face violent opposition?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. 2nd Bernie=Einstein thread

today--what's up?

IMO Bernie's hare-brained opportunistic promises are about as far from smart as you can be. Bernie doesn't seem to be able to think even two steps ahead. For instance, what's he going to say and do after Hillary reaches 2383 delegates on Tuesday?

Then it's going to be not Bernie versus Hillary but Bernie versus the entire Obama coalition.

Get "the hook" already for the egotistical opportunist from Vermont.

[Skwmom]

11. That's not what the post says.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Well...you know...Einstein was a (gasp!) Socialist!!

[pdsimdars]

15. Jesus and crew were communist.

You gave up all you had to the community and they provided what you with what you needed.

[leftynyc]

14. Oh Pleeeaassseee

Could this get any more pathetically sycophantic?