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What the DNC & the media does not understand about Bernie supporters. (Original Post) jillan Mar 2016 OP
And we are not prepared to give up. We will fight on to the convention, and beyond! #StillSanders peacebird Mar 2016 #1
That's what they don't get. When they tell Bernie to drop out they sound beyond ridiculous. jillan Mar 2016 #3
We're here to force the party to return to its roots Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #2
Exactly. The people vs the corporate slum lords. jillan Mar 2016 #4
This movement is ultimately going to require becoming a Third Party BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #5
... Ed Suspicious Mar 2016 #6
Roger That cantbeserious Mar 2016 #7

jillan

(39,451 posts)
3. That's what they don't get. When they tell Bernie to drop out they sound beyond ridiculous.
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 05:59 PM
Mar 2016

This doesn't end in November; we have only just begun.

This is more than the election. This is a movement.

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
5. This movement is ultimately going to require becoming a Third Party
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 06:32 PM
Mar 2016

The last liberal Democratic President was LBJ, and he left the Presidency over 47 years ago. The last Democratic President who wasn't a tool of the upper 0.1% and corporations was Jimmy Carter, and he left the Presidency over 35 years ago.

The Democratic Party strategy, as led by the Clintons and the DNC, is to stay one step to the left of the Republican Party as it moves further right and assume the political left has nowhere to go. The DNC has done everything possible to make sure Hillary is the nominee and they don't even try to hide it.

Other than a few social wedge issues that each party uses to stir up the little people on each side and the type of people they will nominate for the Supreme Court (and that difference has probably diminished as the Democratic Party has moved right), there is little difference between the two parties. The Democratic Party today is no more the party of FDR than today's Republican Party is the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

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