First, the reason Bernie Sanders is the "frontrunner" according to the pseudo-scientific BS of opinion polling is that there isn't any clear "frontrunner" among the way too many real Democrats who are running. Bernie Sanders has what Joe Biden has, name recognition and he has a cult. Everything about Bernie Sanders has been based in his cult of personality. I don't doubt that what he's saying is popular - I like a lot of it, myself - but I can guarantee you that Bernie Sanders will not have the support of a majority of Democrats who vote for the nomination because a. he didn't the last time, not by a long-shot, b. his behavior and, even more so, the behavior of his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, his wife, other members of his campaign in 2016 and the damage they did to the Democratic Party. c. HE CUT TIES TO THE PARTY AS SOON AS THE ELECTION WAS OVER, BERNIE SANDERS ISN'T A FUCKING DEMOCRAT, HE HAS NO RIGHT TO THE NOMINATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Sam Seder and his crew and his fellow Ring of Fire podcasters are obviously perfectly willing to do what the play left has done over and over again for the past fifty-one years and longer, enable the election of Republican-fascists over the promotion of unrealistic lefty cult figures and slogans. With that they do what Ralph Nader did in 2000, they discredit themselves and destroy the very things they allegedly support in real life. It is what Bernie Sanders did for what I have concluded are reasons of his own ego gratification and the enrichment of himself and his family. I will ask, has he disclosed his finances in the way that we are all demanding that Trump reveals his, even today as he is mounting what will certainly be another in a series of disastrous stunt-candidacies.
I respected Bernie Sanders up and until he started pulling this bullshit, I was prepared to let bygones be bygones over 2016 but with this stuff as far as I'm concerned, it's the definitive parting of the ways. If I'm willing to face that about Bernie Sanders, you can bet I'm willing to face it for Ring of Fire in all its various podcasts. I might like Michael Brooks and Sam Seder in many ways but them taking a part in joining the long and terrible history of play-lefty real life aid to the real life success of Republican-fascism, it's all over.
I'm no fan of polls, but MTP on Sunday noted a poll that showed a sizeable majority of Democratic voters don't want a candidate like Bernie (over 70 was one issue). 2 out of 3 categories pretty much identified Bernie. Whether that poll is reliable or not, if the primaries don't go for Bernie, will his supporters sit out the election again?
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I have no doubt that the Bernie bros will do what the play-left always does, help Republicans to spite Democrats. And yet they wonder why so many Democrats don't trust or like them. I think the Democratic Party has to have explicit rules that prevent someone like Sanders and his cult screwing with the Democratic nomination, up to and including that Democrats should tell state parties that caucuses won't be considered a legitimate means of naming delegates to the national convention. They should do the same in states with open registration for primaries. If someone hasn't been a declared member of the party for at least the year before the nominations, or since their 18th birthday, they should not be eligible to vote in the Democratic Primary. I'd favor the Democrats taking it over, entirely, and doing it by mail-in ballot sent only to registered Democrats. I suspect that, as in states where they have by-mail elections the turnout would be much higher than it is and the winner would have a far better chance to win the election. And the Bernie Sanders cult and its like couldn't claim that it was stolen from them. The idiocy that states cook up, such as the horrible Nevada caucus system, proves that leaving it up to the states is a really awful idea. I know the kinds of people who get on committees that come up with bull shit like that, they've got a lot in common with the likes of the Bernie bros.
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