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The Force is With Me
As the Trump nightmare comes crashing down as everyone with a brain knew that it would, democrats are giddy with excitement over their prospects for returning to power. Undoubtedly, democrats will capture many seats they've lost in the coming midterms. The party in power almost always loses seats in the midterms .. and this party in power is particularly putrid, self-serving, and seriously ineffective.
That being said, democrats would be wise to keep Bernie Sanders marginalized and out of the fore-front of their efforts.
Start from here .. Sanders would not have won in 2016. He was the republicans preferred candidate to run against, and they had the research that would have ended his campaign. Hillary Clinton knew about what was in that research, and had damning research of her own on Sanders, but refused to use it. Mistake.
Republicans tried everything they could to get Clinton out and Sanders in, because they wouldn't have needed the Russians nor anybody else to beat Sanders.
As we all rightfully denounce the Pussy Grabber, imagine supporting a candidate who has fantasies about gang rape?
“A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously,” Mr. Sanders wrote.
In another passage, he wrote: “Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like, “Girl, 12, raped by 14 men” sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?’’
Sure, he apologized ..
“It was a poorly written article dealing with gender stereotypes of the period, in the sense that a lot of men have the feel to be all powerful and controlling’’
“Women have the feeling they have to be dependent. It was very poorly written in a way I certainly would not write it now. But if you read it, what you find is that is a bad situation for both people: women shouldn’t be dependent. Men should not be oppressors. We want a society where people are equal. That was what it was about.’’
But imagine that apology in the middle of a presidential campaign. All arguments about grabbing pussy are gone.
Bernie Sanders Recants 1972 Article on Women’s Fantasies of Rape
https://www.nytimes.com/politics/fi...wns-1972-article-on-womens-fantasies-of-rape/
Unfortunately, Sander's foibles don't stop there.
Imagine a progressive democratic candidate who co-sponsored legislation to dump Vermont's nuclear waste on a poor Hispanic community.
What About Sierra Blanca, Bernie?
Bernie Sanders made a cold political calculation in 1998 that affected the lives of hundreds of poor, powerless people half a country away. He did it because it would benefit his affluent, politically engaged constituency, and, in turn, benefit him.
Back in the early 1990s, the state of Vermont had a problem. The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant was generating tons and tons of radioactive waste, but there was nowhere palatable in the state to store it. The only town which was willing to study the possibility, Vernon, was deemed “geologically unstable.” No other towns in Vermont, quite reasonably, wanted the waste.
By October of 1998, Vermont had a solution.
A deal had been worked out between Vermont’s Congressional representation, Texas Representative Joe Barton, and then-Governor George W. Bush. The legislation, which was cosponsored and championed by then-Representative Bernie Sanders, was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Senator Paul Wellstone, who is often mentioned in the same breath as Sanders among the latter’s supporters, was opposed to the legislation.
The people of Vermont didn’t have much of a problem with the deal. But Texans and their Mexican neighbors over the Rio Grande were outraged.
A delegation from Texas reached out to Sanders and tried to reason with him, citing the environmental and human degradation the waste site would create. They thought they would get an empathetic response from the nominal socialist.
They were wrong.
Sanders’s reply was curt, abrupt, and final:
“My position is unchanged and you’re not going to like it.” When asked if he would at least visit the proposed site in Sierra Blanca, he said: “Absolutely not. I’m gonna to be running for re-election in the state of Vermont.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eoin-higgins/what-about-sierra-blanca-bernie_b_9233818.html
It doesn't stop there. He had almost zero chance of winning.
In 2018, choose wisely .. but leave Bernie Sanders at home.
That being said, democrats would be wise to keep Bernie Sanders marginalized and out of the fore-front of their efforts.
Start from here .. Sanders would not have won in 2016. He was the republicans preferred candidate to run against, and they had the research that would have ended his campaign. Hillary Clinton knew about what was in that research, and had damning research of her own on Sanders, but refused to use it. Mistake.
Republicans tried everything they could to get Clinton out and Sanders in, because they wouldn't have needed the Russians nor anybody else to beat Sanders.
As we all rightfully denounce the Pussy Grabber, imagine supporting a candidate who has fantasies about gang rape?
“A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously,” Mr. Sanders wrote.
In another passage, he wrote: “Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like, “Girl, 12, raped by 14 men” sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?’’
Sure, he apologized ..
“It was a poorly written article dealing with gender stereotypes of the period, in the sense that a lot of men have the feel to be all powerful and controlling’’
“Women have the feeling they have to be dependent. It was very poorly written in a way I certainly would not write it now. But if you read it, what you find is that is a bad situation for both people: women shouldn’t be dependent. Men should not be oppressors. We want a society where people are equal. That was what it was about.’’
But imagine that apology in the middle of a presidential campaign. All arguments about grabbing pussy are gone.
Bernie Sanders Recants 1972 Article on Women’s Fantasies of Rape
https://www.nytimes.com/politics/fi...wns-1972-article-on-womens-fantasies-of-rape/
Unfortunately, Sander's foibles don't stop there.
Imagine a progressive democratic candidate who co-sponsored legislation to dump Vermont's nuclear waste on a poor Hispanic community.
What About Sierra Blanca, Bernie?
Bernie Sanders made a cold political calculation in 1998 that affected the lives of hundreds of poor, powerless people half a country away. He did it because it would benefit his affluent, politically engaged constituency, and, in turn, benefit him.
Back in the early 1990s, the state of Vermont had a problem. The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant was generating tons and tons of radioactive waste, but there was nowhere palatable in the state to store it. The only town which was willing to study the possibility, Vernon, was deemed “geologically unstable.” No other towns in Vermont, quite reasonably, wanted the waste.
By October of 1998, Vermont had a solution.
A deal had been worked out between Vermont’s Congressional representation, Texas Representative Joe Barton, and then-Governor George W. Bush. The legislation, which was cosponsored and championed by then-Representative Bernie Sanders, was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Senator Paul Wellstone, who is often mentioned in the same breath as Sanders among the latter’s supporters, was opposed to the legislation.
The people of Vermont didn’t have much of a problem with the deal. But Texans and their Mexican neighbors over the Rio Grande were outraged.
A delegation from Texas reached out to Sanders and tried to reason with him, citing the environmental and human degradation the waste site would create. They thought they would get an empathetic response from the nominal socialist.
They were wrong.
Sanders’s reply was curt, abrupt, and final:
“My position is unchanged and you’re not going to like it.” When asked if he would at least visit the proposed site in Sierra Blanca, he said: “Absolutely not. I’m gonna to be running for re-election in the state of Vermont.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eoin-higgins/what-about-sierra-blanca-bernie_b_9233818.html
It doesn't stop there. He had almost zero chance of winning.
In 2018, choose wisely .. but leave Bernie Sanders at home.
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