Remember when Cornel West tweeted about "Brother Trump"? I do. Reason enough
not to ever listen to anything he says, ever.
Bernie's supporters should be outraged that West lumped him in with Trump.
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Oh, dear. Reminds me that West endorsed Jill Stein and her whackadoodle co, Ajamu Baraka. Baraka was hardly an admirer in return. He said West was "sheep-dogging for the Democrats" by "drawing voters into the corrupt Democratic party." Of course he would. 
Seriously, though, in 2018 and 2020 these types will be trying to dissuade voters from supporting Democrats and they should be discussed. Those their messages ping with will join them as before, but they'll also be trying to draw newcomers to politics who don't yet have the info they need to evaluate them.
This what that extremism expert meant who summarized left wing extremists as "hating themselves" (as in the systems they see themselves belonging to and as opposed to their counterparts on the right who "hate everyone else."
. It also displays the profound dishonesty typically required to support their twisted attitudes.
You're so right West's readers should have been outraged and too many weren't, yet another example. Most burn-down-the-establishment populist types and anti-mainstream leftists undoubtedly skipped directly to the insult to everyone but themselves and wallowed in this silly political bigotry.
each other, of course. Plus, he's definitely one of a kind, far too individual to be replaced or subbed by anyone else.
But as I watched Sanders over time and he was compared now and then to various people, the most similar public figure who came to my mind was Palin.
The huge, most striking similarity, of course, is the fabulous talent both they have for inspiring and exciting audiences. If Hillary had Sanders' talent, she'd have wiped the floor with Obama, and he's hardly a slouch on a stage himself. If Martin O'Malley had it instead of of Sanders, Sanders'd still be just a face in pictures with an I by his name. As it is, though, when it comes to influencing audiences, Palin and Sanders are far above all recent others. Including Trump.
It was only later that a second similarity leaped out at me: during the NYT and WaPo editorial interviews, when Sanders revealed he had no idea HOW he would use executive power to achieve his goals, in spite of arguing for them for over 40 years, including 25 in congress.
(Finally get a use for this.)
Of course, no one ever bothered to ask Palin how one might use the Fed or any other department of government for anything at all, much less how to make single payer happen. Would have taken too long just to explain to her what the Fed was. Sanders has some understanding.
But, in any case, compared to all other recent candidates, they were each alone in their own special class in their stupefying lack of preparation for the positions they were running for or might in future.
They also strick me more alike than not in their great conviction in the righteousness of their cause, hers right wing religious faith of course, his left wing, but both absolutely certain that only they have the answers and the Democratic Party is wrong about everything.
Oh, well.
