Instead we will get clever speech lines that will be forgotten after election day.

DUHville.

bandwagon or sit on the sidelines. They are clueless.

They imagine that after they put some of Bernie's ideas through the deflavorizing machine, that our wallets will open to them.

Buy he's still too angry. lol


They have manufactured messages for so long, I guess as you say, they remain clueless.
Authenticity escapes them.

I think that they are suspicious of authenticity. They view it as an even more devious form of manipulation.

Truth equals magic..maybe they'll get that soon so we can stop losing so many
Democratic races.

Words losing meaning after constant spinning. Damn that is one brilliant post.

They value winning above all, but can't quite remember what they were trying to win, or why.

I know...

"The glory days of Obama"????

How about Kennedy? How about FDR?????

Clueless is right!

They want a way to get mountains of corporate cash while still having the base enthusiastically support everything they do.

Obama was supposed to lead them to that promised land of perfect(false) image creating the unity under their (not very) benevolent rule.

If I could ever think of a better vision of dystopia...

on the sidelines but instead have endorsed Bernie. And when you look at their web sites you find out they also agree with him.

These people will be the ones I donate to personally.

It is amazing that they have been selling us out for over 30 years and they expect us to support them? I realize it took us a long time to wake up but now that we are awake we are going to stay that way.

as best I can.

A great article on this phenomenon~

Establishment Democrats Missing the Moment – And the Point

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The longer they blame those losses mostly on gerrymandering the more we'll lose.

chose from, with liberal values only making an appearance during campaigns & then always tempered with "no new taxes" & no welfare for the poor, and no we don't want the dreaded "big govt" either, there's no reason to vote, for many people. No one represents them, so they are the apathetic non-voters....

Why bother? is right up there with the problem of gerrymandering.

enough, raise enough money so he can get that message out. But you're right and
disaffected voters span so many demographics...we just have to keep trying.

I missed this one, thanks.

Reminds me that I need to catch up on my Colbert.

for 40 years.

Their idea that they can just copy some fucking "magic" is the whole problem with their whole shitty, crappy, fake, useless, unproductive, shallow party mechanism.

opportunistic. And they have the nerve to wonder why Hillary isn't running away with the nomination?? Jesus Christ on a crutch.

lone voices who is not corrupt.

...

Phonies need not apply ...

Ignoring that it's a response to that message thingy, they are puzzled about how to capture that magic.

fault him for being too angry. lol They are devoid of how real his message is about the
corruption that prevents any movement to resolve significant issues.

They still look at him as orchestrating a message, as opposed to what he has always
done, tell the truth.

Assuming Sanders becomes Potus, they will continue the slant well after New Deal 11 is implemented...the same thing happened with FDR. It's the ideology stupid.

Positive overall coverage did not really start until Dec 8, 1941. Before that it was...well...curious of course, some papers back then did not hide they were pro republican. These days I feel media should go back to tje 60s, tje closest we came to a somewhat neutral, just the facts ma'am media

Steps to join Bernie's Army (and success)

1) Quit your loyalty to the current administration of Democratic National Party
2) Join Bernie Sanders, and fully endorse him enthusiastically and back him up 100%
3) Set up your recurring donation for Bernie via Act Blue
4) Order your Bernie swag, and put it all over in public.
5) Be honest and do not overdo the public when promising change. Keep it realistic.
6) Most importantly, enjoy yourself, be yourself and have fun!

...is a nation that will elect a better Congress and better state legislators.

I hope he tells certain colleagues to go....

But they're just looking at the "ka'ching" and wondering how they can pretend to care so they can make some of that easy money from the dumbasses out here.

lol

They want to use his success not copy it. Copying it would require changes and obviously change (or as some would say "progress&quot is not something the Democratic party is currently a big fan of.

Quit being republican lite third way corporate types, go hard populist instead....and not just the usual lip service variety other than with social issues.

The success of Bernie, and yes, the weird and misguided support for Trump should tell us that people are tired of the corporate control of both party machines.

...

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Once those political hacks learn to fake Sanders' sincerity, they'll have it made.

is a troubling indictment of their ability to handle the economy. If they couldn't even predict the groundswell of frustration in working class people who are slipping off the edges of subsistence means they are not prepared with meaningful reforms.

could pull it off? I doubt it, they thought they got rid of their only threat, Warren.

A Conservative media bubble. Appearing on all those political hack talk shows that are made up of a majority of right wing panelists. Completely unreflective of the general population. I don't know if they are willfully stupid, or just fleeced by some status quo culture. Its almost could be compared to the Vatican City's relationship with Italy. It is evident when things like simple background criminal and mental checks should be required before buying a gun, which seemed obvious to the 85% - 95% of the American people (depending on what poll). Yet not just Republicans, but many Democrats as well, voted to quash that bill before it was even born.

They live in this "we know whats best for you all" They are all so afraid to break the bubble and actually just listen to the population. Bernie is the exception. Most just believe the tired old Washington memes of "its a Conservative country". Dems have been so pathetically frightened of Fox News scolding them on the air, even though despite 24/7 endless D bashing, the public has voted a Democrat as President two times in a row, and will most likely vote in another one. And many Ds have had to scramble with their own "I've evolved" on their sudden shock to find out that outside this bubble the public is actually in favor of gay marriage and legal weed.

The answer is simple, which is probably why they want to look so hard for a different one. The "secret" is WORK FOR US.

And for reals, not just lip service.

They should try to get passed the calculated demographics and segmentation stuff and try supporting at least a few things that people want.

The era of big brand is over. The era of transparency is here. If you can't be as transparent as Bernie then his methods won't work for you.

Why are they fighting it so hard? Just take the easy win!

How does anyone keep that position for so long and not produce accordingly? Amazing.

Really simple

What they're extracting from the response Bernie has received is about as
cynical as Hillary's campaign.

...the article is about Congress members who want half-measures like Hillary Clinton does.

It is amazing how stupid they are...they reveal, as you say..much more about themselves
than they intended.

want to figure out how to be punk. Good luck with that!

are phony fucks. And creepy corporatists like Israel will never get Bernie's help. Tough shit.

it must be MAGIC. lol

will never get it.

Exactly. It's disgusting actually. The idea of veteran pols trying to figure out what kind of act to put on to grab a piece of grassroot funding... nauseating.

Many of us are. I've been a Democrat my whole life.

It is not rocket science. And for $5000, you too can attend my seminar on how to " be like Bernie"
But for my friends on DU, i will give you the short version: dont lie. Dont sell out your principles. Dont take campaign $$ from people who expect anything from you that would mean compromising above.

Stop moving toward the right already! It's really simple.

success speaks volumes to how out of touch they truly are.

I also hope this movement grows and expands to either hold them to it, or start replacing them.

Reinforce the Democrats that support progressive causes.

Primary the ones that don't out of office, and replace them with ones that do.

Use this energy to get out the vote in 2018 mid-terms and kick republicans out with Democrats.

I, for one, am quite pleased to see Senator Sanders moving the conversation to the left. I'm hoping for hope that this movement grows and expands past the presidential election.

pretty much write themselves, and show why they'll never "figure it out."

someone admits they're noticing the obvious!!

that last line just slays me:

Success like that is something party leaders can’t ignore, even if they reject the messenger.

however, herein lies the rub, methinks. all the action is in the messenger. not in bernie, per se, but in his integrity and character.

you can't copy, borrow, or fake that. It is who he is, and you can't just wrap yourself in it like some cloak off the rack.

which is why hillary is struggling so badly. she reached for the cloak the way these quotables are considering as soon as she realized she was not inevitable. but it does not work. anyone paying attention gets it.

that money quote, tho, pivots on the first clause: SUCCESS LIKE THAT IS SOMETHING PARTY LEADERS CAN'T IGNORE.

hear hear! i second the emotion!

and they damn well better start paying attention.

ps. as an aside, i'd have to say that, given how long bernie gave his own odds when he embarked on this campaign, this admission in print on the part of party members is a TOTAL VICTORY, even if he were to hypothetically not win the nomination.

The beauty is, they CAN'T copy it.

This is a perfect year for a genuine, liberal populist... wonder where we could find one?

It should be easy to run as a liberal and still be more conservative than Sanders.

Those days are over!

They could start by telling the truth and finish by giving a damn.

After all, DWS is doing such a splendid job!

them.

How many seats have Democrats lost so far? How much longer are we
going to blame Republicans for these losses?

I bet a lot of these are Super Delegates for her. Good luck assholes. I will NEVER give to them. ONLY Bernie.

Send out endless emails seriously demanding $1. Works for her!

Before you call the firing squad, hear me out!

Is it not obvious to them that people are sick and tired of the way they've been doing things? People have been talking about a need for a change in politics for years. Senator Sanders had the good sense to not only see this and tap into it, but to also "feel the Bern" himself rather than ignoring it like so many of his colleagues have done. Secretary Clinton and other Democrats would be wise to follow in his path.