Bernie Sanders' Colleagues Aren't Feeling 'The Bern'

[leftcoastmountains]

-If it weren't for Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders would be the talk of the 2016 presidential race right now.

The Vermont senator is surging in the polls, he's getting some of the biggest crowds and he's increasingly become an obstacle to Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions.

But there is something notable Sanders is missing - endorsements from the colleagues who know him the best.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bernie-sanders-colleagues-arent-feeling-bern-n427596

[Admiral Loinpresser]

1. Like everything else in this campaign,

this will change for the better!

[djean111]

2. Like his colleagues are going to cross the DNC at this point.

I don't expect Sanders to get those endorsements unless/until he is solidly ahead of Hillary. His colleagues are political creatures.
Personally, I think endorsements are nice and all that, but they have never influenced my support or my vote.

[merrily]

6. Exactly. They know where their bread is buttered. nt

[Rod Beauvex]

17. Not the DNC.

They don't want to piss off the money and powers that be.

Lots of people seem to forget money and power is not exclusively attracted to Republicans, rather, anyone who is agreeable to...certain viewpoints.

[djean111]

26. Of course you are correct. I was just being lazy. And Debbie Dino represents all that is wrong

with the Democratic Party, or what remains of it, today. Money and power and kissing corporate ass.

[Rod Beauvex]

28. Yes.

I was actually going to make the point that much of the DNC was turning against DWS, but I too got lazy. :p

[fredamae]

3. IOW-"How to ID/Cut Corporate Democrats" from the herd n/t

[azmom]

4. Exactly. Take note people.

This election we will find out who is truly for the people.

[merrily]

7. We've known for a while. We just had no realistic alternatives.

[azmom]

8. Is there a list?

[merrily]

9. A list of the corporate Democrats in Congress?

This is not an all inclusive list, but I'd at least start with the list of members at the website of the Congressional New Democrat Coalition.

[azmom]

11. Okay. I'll check it out. Thanks.

[merrily]

12. You're very welcome.

[HooptieWagon]

5. And lose DSCC/DCCC funding?

And incur the wrath of DWS and the corporate donors? Not gonna happen at this point... most are too afraid to cross the Third Way.
In time, when they see the public tsunami of support for Bernie, they'll try to hitch onboard.

[merrily]

10. The interesting thing? The more liberal members of Congress subsidize the Blue Dogs and DINOs.

So, let's say you say to yourself, "I'm donating only to individual candidates." Gotcha. Indirectly you'll be donating to the ones you probably don't want to back.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778505

[HooptieWagon]

13. Wow. Tnx for the read.

[merrily]

14. We probably have no clue just how many ways the game is rigged.

[HooptieWagon]

16. All the more reason to support a candidate,...

...who'll replace DNC chairperson and other comittee chairs in order to reform the party. This is our last chance. If we fail....

[merrily]

18. A lot of people feel it is our last chance. Maybe it's the start of a movement, though.

The parties lined up over a very clear divide when Lincoln ran. They began re-aligning in the 40s, 50, 60s and 70s, perhaps starting some with Eleanor Roosevelt's example and then Truman's integration of the military and ending with Atwater's "Southern Strategy," aka pandering to racists.

Who knows? Anything can happen.

[HooptieWagon]

22. I'm in the 'last chance' camp.

There is no chance that the corporatist Dems and their backers will ever again allow a populist progressive to run under the Democratic Party banner after what Bernie is doing. They allowed him to do so this time not realizing the support he would get. I'm sure there's a lot of hair on fire among the elites.

[merrily]

23. I was referring to a re-alignment of Americans.

This is about us.

[HooptieWagon]

24. True. It could bring about a third party emerging....

...if Sanders falters. But that will take a long time to establish.

[merrily]

25. Yes. No instant fixes, obviously. This country's been unfair since before it was a country.

Slavery from the first white settlers. The East India Company. Etc.

[azmom]

15. That was enlightening. Good info on that

Thread. Thanks again.

[merrily]

19. De nada.

[azmom]

20. Muy bien amiga.

[merrily]

21. I don't know how to say, "Aw, shucks" in Spanish.

[PatrickforO]

27. That's because they fear retaliation from the establishment wing of

the party. They are generally a bunch of wind socks. The endorsements will come when Bernie has it sewn up. Not one of these people will DARE endorse Bernie until it is obvious the people are overwhelmingly on his side. They are too beholden to the oligarchs.

[DirtyHippyBastard]

29. Thomas Roberts said at the end of that segment

something to the effect that congress critters were not yet feeling the bern because of a fear of the Clinton Machine reprisals.
Hammer meet nail.

[SoapBox]

30. ^ This ^