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NYT: "The Cult of Sore Losers" (Actual Headline) **HRC GROUP***
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/the-cult-of-sore-losers.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=curBernie Sanders isn’t losing. Just ask many of his backers or listen to some of his own complaints. He’s being robbed, a victim of antiquated rules, voter suppression, shady arithmetic and a corrupt Democratic establishment. The swindle includes the South’s getting inordinate sway and the poor none at all. If Americans really had a voice, they would shout “Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!” until too hoarse to shout anymore.
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Elections don’t settle disputes, not even for some fleeting honeymoon. They accelerate them, because there’s a pernicious insistence that they’re not referendums on the public mood but elaborate board games in which the triumphant player used the wickedest skulduggery.
When you honestly believe or disingenuously assert that you’ve been outmaneuvered rather than outvoted, why declare a truce, let alone cooperate, in the aftermath?
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The pro-Sanders actor Tim Robbins fired off a tweet this week with the charge that “this election is being stolen,” the hashtag #VoterFraud and the insinuation that The Times and CNN were essentially conspiring with Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
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But all of the candidates knew about that patchwork going in, and Clinton’s successful navigation of it — she has a multi-million-vote lead over Sanders — is more persuasive than any dark claims of dastardly tricks.
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But there’s more at work. The refusal to grant victors legitimacy bundles together so much about America today: the coarseness of our discourse; the blind tribalism coloring our debates; the elevation of individualism far above common purpose; the ethos that everybody should and can feel like a winner on every day.
(...)
Elections don’t settle disputes, not even for some fleeting honeymoon. They accelerate them, because there’s a pernicious insistence that they’re not referendums on the public mood but elaborate board games in which the triumphant player used the wickedest skulduggery.
When you honestly believe or disingenuously assert that you’ve been outmaneuvered rather than outvoted, why declare a truce, let alone cooperate, in the aftermath?
(...)
The pro-Sanders actor Tim Robbins fired off a tweet this week with the charge that “this election is being stolen,” the hashtag #VoterFraud and the insinuation that The Times and CNN were essentially conspiring with Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
(...)
But all of the candidates knew about that patchwork going in, and Clinton’s successful navigation of it — she has a multi-million-vote lead over Sanders — is more persuasive than any dark claims of dastardly tricks.
(...)
But there’s more at work. The refusal to grant victors legitimacy bundles together so much about America today: the coarseness of our discourse; the blind tribalism coloring our debates; the elevation of individualism far above common purpose; the ethos that everybody should and can feel like a winner on every day.
(More great analysis of both sides at link.)
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Reasons why BS is not winning the nomination Part II
Donna NoShock ??@NoShock
Boom Shakalaka!!! #MDforHRC
6:47 AM - 26 Apr 2016
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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/04/26/chat-away-814/
Mahalo, Jackie~
Donna NoShock ??@NoShock
Boom Shakalaka!!! #MDforHRC
6:47 AM - 26 Apr 2016
45 45 Retweets 42 42 likes
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/04/26/chat-away-814/
Mahalo, Jackie~The curtain gets pulled open to reveal a crafty old man--no wizard!
Aloha Cha!
how can one campaign be so wrong yet have all these rabid fans think they hung the Moon?
thank Goodness they've lost!
Thank you!
and
You're Welcome~
and thank you NYT for recording what is really going on for the history books.
