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Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 02:28 PM Mar 2020

Maybe the bullying is the point:

Bernie Sanders and his followers want to drub the rest of us into submission

Berner politics are animated by the production of irritation on the one hand, and alienation on the other. The perceived authenticity of a political figure, like that of a disaffected teenager’s favorite band, is the amount of aggravation he causes on the other side of a slammed door. The more he rattles the normies, the more he cements his status as The One True Progressive.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-maybe-the-bullying-is-the-point-20200303-e2o4wsymjbgfviqxwgfd37a24u-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1bR7ShK-zXP_K15mxLfB4f6XNNTBgehnN6GKUCsTQFgHt_RX9TTC2HdLM

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Maybe the bullying is the point: (Original Post) Fresh_Start Mar 2020 OP
All true. Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #1
Thanks for the youthful fire, Bernie, No thanks for the youthful lack of judgement, impulsive emmaverybo Mar 2020 #2
 

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
2. Thanks for the youthful fire, Bernie, No thanks for the youthful lack of judgement, impulsive
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 02:35 PM
Mar 2020

and reckless supporter’s bullying, underhanded propagandist surrogates, your stupid and unneeded and adolescent defiance against the party running you, bullying, never ending spiteful bullying and not taking responsibility for it.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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