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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Washington Post: Bernie Sanders is hijacking the Democratic Party to be elected as an independent [View all]However, it is disingenuous to suggest Bernie has hijacked the party since he has always caucused with Democrats and endorsed Democratic policies that are in the spirit of FDR. Sure he wasn't crazy about NAFTA and the ACA since they were policies lifted right out of the right wing Heritage Foundation. So who was hijacking the party who backed these deals.
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Washington Post: Bernie Sanders is hijacking the Democratic Party to be elected as an independent [View all]
kennetha
Mar 2016
OP
Yes, if not this time around, we will get there...and no mattter what I will always
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#57
The DLC /Clinton intent was moderate GOP infiltration of the Democratic Party
musiclawyer
Mar 2016
#85
They should if the independent is closer to Dem values than the "life-long Dem" is.
Ken Burch
Mar 2016
#18
She is only a Repub to the far left. Repubs think she is a far left liberal.
LonePirate
Mar 2016
#80
Just as Bernie is an FDR Dem, HRC is a NE Blue Blood Rockefeller Republican.
kristopher
Mar 2016
#113
WAPO put up 16 anti Sanders stories in 16 hours. I grok why Hillary supporters love it.
merrily
Mar 2016
#7
Um, my post was factual. The problem seems to be your failure to know a fact when you see one.
merrily
Mar 2016
#15
Not the corporation, but the DLC spirit lives on in the Clintons and the DNC is the DNC/DLC now.
merrily
Mar 2016
#22
Democrats who left the party have re-registered to vote for Sanders in the primary. Do not imagine
merrily
Mar 2016
#25
Haha! Even Hercules would wince at the prospect of cleaning up the mess you made
RufusTFirefly
Mar 2016
#24
Madfloridian wrote a great OP on how they called the DLC takeover a bloodless revolution
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#98
Living in Florida, watching what Debbie Wasserman-DINO does - I'll have what Bernie is
djean111
Mar 2016
#42
How is that different from "Democrats" hijacking the Dem Party to be elected as Republicans?
Triana
Mar 2016
#59
YAY!!!! Go BERNIE. I'd back you as an Independent, I'd back you as a Democrat.
TalkingDog
Mar 2016
#61
Good article-It is clear that Sanders will have a difficult time flipping super delegates
Gothmog
Mar 2016
#79
It was ALREADY hijacked by the DLC/Corporatists. Bernie is helping to take it back. n/t
Skwmom
Mar 2016
#83
He is hijacking nothing, he has faithfully caucused with the democrats for years
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#89
He is running as a Democrat, you are really reaching with this one, and you damn well know it
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#94
Then who are all these people who are voting for him in democratic primaries and caucuses?
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2016
#100
They didn't call it hijacking the 60 million years he caucus with the democrats in congress
Cobalt Violet
Mar 2016
#106
It's about time someone took the Democratic party back from its Old-Republican overlords.
JackRiddler
Mar 2016
#110
Exactly when was it that Democratic Socialists Controlled the Democratic Party again?
kennetha
Mar 2016
#124
Really, you don't seem to understand the breadth and complexity and variety of FDR
kennetha
Mar 2016
#142
Controlled the party or considered themselves sufficiently represented by the Party?
shawn703
Mar 2016
#129
no he's more of democratic SOCIALIST than any other democrat. Why do you keep dropping that part?
kennetha
Mar 2016
#138
Jeff Bezos and the Clinton's hijacked the Democratic Party in the 90s. Time for a FDR Democrat to
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Mar 2016
#149