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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]alarimer
(16,245 posts)146. Good.
They need it. They've sold their souls to the corporate wing.
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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