Cenk Uygur Just Took $4-Mill from a Conservative Source (but He's Still a Better Liberal Than You)

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18. Never cared for him.

The "a la carte" politics though, that's a pretty good summation of, and explanation for, the random
assortment of supporters Bernie has cobbled together. Democratic support, the core, grows slow.
Bernie's support grew fast, not because he's particularly awesome or anything, but because his
support and supporters were founded on a tiny number of issues. It's easy to build a coalition to
support you when you don't worry about building relative consensus on any more than a handful
of issues. It's not a good strategy long term though, built up quick, falls down quick. Look at the
Tea Party on the Republican side, same thing, few issues (namely, "Obama sux, government sux&quot .
When it came time to do things though, they scattered in all directions like cockroaches. Really,
still almost feel sorry for Old Boehner...completely powerless. The only thing that's held the
Tea Party "enhanced" Republican party together is, amusingly, Obama...or hatred of him. Otherwise,
they'd have ripped each others' throats out by now...even more so than it seems like they have.

The Democratic core though, is much stronger than that. It can have it's problems, but a lot
like an ecosystem, it's grown into it's form organically, relatively balanced. Strength in diversity,
interdependence, and symbiosis.

Bernie's group grew more like...I don't know...a mono-crop field of corn? Low diversity, intensive
focus, turbo charged by the fertilizer of $27 (...ish) donations and media hype...but ultimately,
susceptible to it's own monolithic weaknesses. Bernie blight ruins the whole crop.