Bernie Sanders

Rebkeh

(2,450 posts) Wed Jan 20, 2016, 03:15 PM Jan 2016

Debunking the Case Against Bernie

http://www.alternet.org/media/debunking-case-against-bernie

Ben Norton at Salon writes,

Being poor, getting robbed by Wall Street’s financial chicanery, and then getting your money back does not change the fact that you were poor in the first place. Again, this argumentum ad centrum is predicated on the notion that things are good if they return to the status quo.

There's more, Chait's arguments outlined in The Case Against Bernie Sanders, his article in New York magazine, has been dismantled quite nicely.

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Debunking the Case Against Bernie (Original Post) Rebkeh Jan 2016 OP

Clinton may cost us the GE if she gets the nomination. TIME TO PANIC Jan 2016 #1

After all, defending the status quo is a profitable enterprise. DaveT Jan 2016 #2

TIME TO PANIC

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1. Clinton may cost us the GE if she gets the nomination.

Reply to Rebkeh (Original post)

Wed Jan 20, 2016, 04:50 PM

Jan 2016

The backlash will be enormous. You can't insult your base and expect to win.
Well, maybe republicans can, but they don't know they're being insulted.

DaveT

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2. After all, defending the status quo is a profitable enterprise.

Reply to Rebkeh (Original post)

Wed Jan 20, 2016, 05:57 PM

Jan 2016

Great closing line.

Personally, as summer turned to fall, and Hillary had a bit of a rebound in the polls after the first debate and the silly Benghazi hearing, I thought the Hillarians poll-gloating was preposterous, and I believed that Sanders had a very realistic shot at winning. Now that the gloating is ancient history, it is tempting to gloat back at them -- but I think that is both premature and bad karma. Just as in September, I believe it will be a competitive primary season, and I think Bernie has a reasonable chance of coming out on top.

That said, looking at how Hillary and her supporters are responding to the recent success of the Sanders campaign, I am getting much more optimistic about our chances. Chait provides a great synopsis of their new message -- The World Sucks and Only an Idiot Thinks You Can Do Anything About It.

Don't they remember how Ronald Reagan blew Walter Mondale away for his "gloom and doom"? Do they honestly think that there are a significant amount of voters who are going to respond to the idea that Money Controls Everything So Get Over It? Grow up and vote for me!

Here is my suggestion for the Clinton campaign slogan: Eat Your Spinach and Vote for Hillary.

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