It's Official The Bernie Sanders Delegates Network Doesn't Care What He Says. Let's See How Many Of His People Do

Aside from Putin very possibly trying to ratfuck the presidential election for Donald Trump, the other political news from the day is that Bernie Sanders can't lead his own followers into reality.  It's not that big a surprise, the first real doubts I had about the wisdom of Sanders having mounted his campaign were based on the behavior of his supporters at my town's caucus - not all of them, but enough of them.

If we are unlucky, this is the year "the left" entirely discredits itself, perhaps for the last time in our lifetimes.   I realize there is a lot of time between now and November but, having seen this production three times before, I'm not going to bet on "the left" acting more maturely than it did in 2000 or 1980 or 1968.  Perhaps that comes with the segment of political identity which so heavily depends on the barely post-adolescent, though I can say that most of the biggest jerks are a lot older than that, chronologically, at least.   The idea that the least experienced voters with the least historical context to have learned from are going to produce wise choices is ridiculous.  It is as ridiculous now as it was when we were told the same lie in the 1960s.  I would advise the young to realize what crap they've been sold, it's both an excuse and a way to wise up.

Bernie Sanders is reported to have given his supporters some minimal request that they act maturely but it is suspected that a lot of them are going to make assholes of themselves.   They're being encouraged to do so by the magazines and webazines of the left, from high to low, they've shown themselves to be anything from not helpful to entirely irresponsible.   As mentioned here the other day, since the "left-left" doesn't actually win elections the leadership of it resides in media and the people who scribble and babble content for it.

David Corn, at Mother Jones does seem to be catching on that this election is a death match between democracy and fascism, it took long enough.  In an article about how the Sanders delegates are planning to vent through the entire convention he gives you a lot to worry about.

At a press conference on Monday morning, the Bernie Delegates Network, an outfit independent of the Sanders campaign that claims to represent two-thirds of the Sanders delegates, presented Sanders delegates outraged at the DNC and Clinton campaign. They were mad that Clinton has named Wasserman Schultz an honorary chairwoman of her campaign. There was talk of launching protests—"an expression of disapproval"—during Clinton and Kaine's speeches. This could include delegates booing or walking out.

Norman Solomon, a Sanders delegate, asserted, "There is serious interest and exploration…in a formal challenge" to Kaine. Who might that be? Solomon replied that Sanders delegates have approached several politicians, but that "those who want to eat lunch at the White House, they run the other way." So any names? "We're working on it." (Solomon said he has had "zero connection with the Bernie campaign.")

As an aside, Solomon is a long time professional lefty who should certainly have grown up to the extent that he knows how stupid that nonsense is.  But the hard school of experience doesn't seem to teach guys like him much.   I think I'm right that his experience of real politics is as a failed congressional candidate (California's 2nd district) and he, otherwise, has headed a few semi-obscure groups who you'll get solicitations from if you subscribe to the lefty magazines, so he's part of that so notably failed establishment.  I would imagine he drew a pay check from them, though.  It's just that none of which has led him to maturity even as he is at retirement age.

His latest shtick is a "Bernie Sanders" network that doesn't care what he thinks.

“He’s not running the movement,” said Norman Solomon, national coordinator of the Bernie Delegate Network, which operates independent of Sanders.

Let me guess, Solomon figures this is his thing, riding an anti-Kaine hobby horse to take the platform.  He might have some competition.

Karen Bernal, a leader of the California Sanders delegation, said there would be nothing wrong with Sanders people jeering Clinton when she comes to the podium. She did note that the Sanders campaign was "pressing us not to be involved in protests and not to be so overt in our expressions…My job is to make sure that the wishes of my delegates are heard, that their opinions are heard...They have never been a group to take marching orders."

Bernal believes Sanders' endorsement of Clinton was a mistake. She said, "We can still be mad at Hillary Clinton and still say it's essential to defeat Trump." But asked if protests by Sanders delegate would help the effort to defeat Trump, Beral noted, "It absolutely helps," because it will signal to progressives that there is a place for them within the Democratic Party. She didn't explain precisely how deriding Clinton and her veep pick would bolster the effort to elect Clinton.

Believe me, none of them makes any more sense than that.  From googling Bernal, she was active in the run up to the disastrous Nevada caucus last spring and she's a much quoted jerk who is obviously the grab the mic and get attention sort.  She and Solomon are frequent names in stories of intended disruption in the name of Bernie Sanders but, as has been clear for the past several weeks, it's not remotely about him at this point.

So, where are the adults in the Sanders' delegation?  Are the adult scared of the eternal adolescents among them or will they break with them?   I'm sure there are adults among them, let's see them try to take charge.