about Bernie here??

Good article. Thanks.

Just asking, not voicing an opinion. I can retract the question if necessary. "Anointed" was just a turn of phrase, not meant to imply some holy blessing.

and I really suspect you would be better off in a lot of ways just asking someone else.

What a brightly colored cross you've designed for yourselves for that Newer & Better Martyrdom! Tastes Great... less filling.

there i said it. am i banned from DU now?

But for now, apparently not. In the meantime, you'll just get a lot of grief and hassle.

Sorry.

Keep telling yourself that... without the self-assigned oppression, there's have little else.

Here's another pertinent excerpt..

of Howard Dean, you know, the 50 state party approach that gave us a super majority in the Congress and a Democratic president. Remember that one? Do you think we should do that again? I do. How many seats have we lost since we abandoned that strategy? Damn, somebody better be talking about it.

....but there was a lot more involved than a 50-state strategy.

We had probably the most charismatic Presidential candidate since JFK, maybe even more so than even him, there was a looming depression worse than any in our history except for the "Great Depression" of the 1930s, and there were two ill-conceived wars going on because of one of the most inept administrations in our history.

To attribute our gains in 2008 only to a 50-state strategy is political naivety. What we really need is candidates that fit in their districts so they can compete with republican candidates.

Not only losing the House but state legislatures in a census year giving Republicans big majorities necessary for redistricting which became gerrymandering on steroids with no organized pushback from the Democratic Party.

Guess our candidates didn't fit in their districts, huh? Or, maybe the DNC abandoned local elections. I saw that happen in Colorado. I think our national party supporting local, grassroots candidates is necessary for Democratic candidates to win and I will continue to donate to and support candidates that support the Democratic agenda whether they be in my own district or somewhere else.

punished Pres. Obama for not getting single payer....elections have consequences...12 was better than expected...14 again Democrats didn't show up and we got Gorsuch...see a pattern here? We squandered six years of a Democratic President because he couldn't fulfil our hopes and dreams in two years and ended up with a gerrymandered House. Now I will say this to those who think Sen. Sanders should run...you are wrong. If he runs, we lose 20 period end of story. We need fresh faces and to put 16 behind us. We don't need a nominee who will run against the party while running against Republicans...not that I think Sen. Sanders can win a primary. No, more likely, the usual suspects will scream that 20 was rigged and unfair. Regardless of your opinion of the MLK function...many others disagree and it has caused controversy, and there is too much drama with Sen. Sanders. We need to focus on beating Republicans in 18 and 20. I hope he will not run. It would be a disaster.

....."he hasn't done this yet....", "he hasn't done that yet....", "he promised but...." They were relentless.

It got so bad around here that a few months into Obama's Presidency I signed off DU and didn't come back for about two years.

No, abandoning the 50-state strategy isn't what cost all those seats, it was purists who demanded perfection or they wouldn't vote that cost us many of those seats.

I've read several articles that dispute the effectiveness of the 50 state strategy. While it helped in many areas, it hurt in others by spending in states & districts where there was no hope of victory which diverted those funds from districts that were very close. In one article is was estimated that caused the loss of at least 5 or so additional seats for the Dems.

…..and for challenging the usual headline narrative.

How convincing.

by known Sanders detractors.

not like BS. The list doesn't just come out of thin air.

I dont like them because they are all great people (they may well be but that isnt my point), I like them because if we have 218 of them in the house, we get to stop the Nazi's

you know, the NAZI'S who are targeting Vietnamese

But unlike Briahna Gray, you weren't there. Why should we take your word over hers?

....there were a lot more important events taking place that day to memorialize the historic significance of that day.

his words, and how they affected POC whom I respect.

endearingly no less?

"followed quickly by a black teenager, who endearingly apologized repeatedly to “Mr. Sanders”

Maybe if you read it you will find out.

...to October, six months ago, to find a "recent" poll to cite?

It's that ubiquitous ONLINE Harvard Harris poll which the pollsters admit was "weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, political party, political affiliation, and education where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population".

That's the poll that asked...."Now we will show you some names. Please indicate if you have a favorable or unfavorable view of that person." and then listed a select group of only 13 people INCLUDING Steve Bannon who had already left the administration months earlier, and Bob Corker, who had already announced he was retiring, and omitted many other public figures.

Clearly the writer had a mission, and it doesn't appear to have been an objective mission.

A Teenager apologizing to BS indeed!

and the answer is as obscure as your post. The entire article has a whiff to me.

How is my post "obscure"?.

Sanders is a much bigger man than his knee-jerk opponents would have you think. Thanks for posting.

The vibe of liberation is so much better than cynicism.

asserts Ms. Gray in another puff piece.

"But more relevant than whether Sanders has done enough to support the party itself should be whether Sanders has worked hard in service of the party’s ideals. After all, what would it mean to promote a party that stood for nothing?"

The quote doesn’t say you apparently think it does.

She says without the party’s ideals the party stands for nothing. She is not saying the party stands for nothing. She is saying a party without ideals is just a party.

She is saying the Democratic Party has ideals worth promoting — otherwise, promoting just a party would be futile.

I’m sure you can find something else to not like about this piece but that quote ain’t it.

"Bernie Sanders Is Not a Democrat...Thank God". It doesn't get any plainer than that, no matter how you try to spin it.

That sure is a hit piece on the Democratic Party. Methinks Briahna doesn't like us much.

Thanks for the link to Current Affairs...interesting read.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/bernie-sanders-isnt-a-democrat-thank-god

fact based article..

"Mayor Lumumba’s closing remarks at the panel reinforced the theme that identity alone is not enough: “There was a time,” he explained, “where our fight was to get leadership that looked like us. Now our mission must be to have leadership that thinks like us.”

I'm sure the haters have hurled all over the thread; I'll wait until lunch to look...or maybe just avoid them entirely. They've got one note, and it's sour.

This paragraph jumped out, but the entire thing stands in contrast to the deconstructions we see here.

Even before he went, some did not want him there.
" I was feeling Bernie.

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Yet some people can't be invited to the cookout. They just can't. They might sound like they are kinda down but then they open their mouth a few too many times, and there it is—nonsense just flows freely from their lips like water over Niagara falls. Bernie cannot come to the cookout. Sorry, not sorry."
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/apr/04/opinion-mississippi-womens-activistbernie-sanders-/

it’s nice to see some balance attempted here.
thanks!