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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is inadvertently damaging the Democratic Party [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)17. The purer than thou theme does not work
It cannot win elections. It's stupid and vain.
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I have seen a lot of really fucked up notions of what a political party should be lately.
Bonobo
Feb 2016
#10
OK that meme hasn't worked at all and now is schoolwork and even sillier when used as a verb.
hedda_foil
Feb 2016
#127
MSNBC isn't turning Republican, it's aligning with the Democratic Party. People dislike the look.
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2016
#86
The D party (my party) has been astonishingly rude to a man who did them a huge favor.
PotatoChip
Feb 2016
#29
So what did you call it when both Hillary and Obama held up LGBT as unworthy of equal rights?
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2016
#48
My guess is that you are not familiar with the TV character Nurse Jackie, played by Edie Falco on
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2016
#43
Nurse Jackie had an addiction, a disease, not excessive hubris. Sorry, that's just the way I saw it.
Stardust
Feb 2016
#58
Maybe. But not before Bernie forces her to say a WHOLE LOT OF LEFTY THINGS
TwilightGardener
Feb 2016
#65
Actually ... Hillary Clinton Was the 11th Most Liberal Member of the Senate
NurseJackie
Feb 2016
#66
And you're soooo confident the millions who support him will simply come running back
whatchamacallit
Feb 2016
#67
Good! It's about time!! I am sick of the spineless Dems that keep moving towards the middle while
jillan
Feb 2016
#11
Thank goodness, really! And the fact that he is doing so well restores a little
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2016
#124
While I support Hillary, it's ridiculous to say that Bernie is "damaging the party".
Nye Bevan
Feb 2016
#14
I'm sending this to The Greatest Page with the fifth rec. Not because it's on the mark...
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2016
#23
All I know is Bernie is fighting for the stuff we Democrats in the 60s fought for
Jarqui
Feb 2016
#24
Bernie is saving the Party by allowing me to have a Democrat who has never opposed my rights to
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2016
#36
Bill and Hillary Clinton have done more damage to the democratic party than anyone...
Punkingal
Feb 2016
#63
Bernie is dragging the Democratic Party (kicking and screaming) back to its roots.
Vinca
Feb 2016
#72
No, the Third Way is damaging, and has damaged, the Democratic Party, with the Clintons
djean111
Feb 2016
#83
30% of registered voters are Democrats. You're precious party is already broken..
frylock
Feb 2016
#94