Sanders’s belief in the plausibility of a “political revolution” is also based off a specific critique of Obama’s presidency and its approach to wielding power. In his view, Obama had it within his power to upend the rules of politics in 2008, when he was pulling record crowds and creating a new model for political organizing. Then he got elected and … stopped. He went from revolutionizing the outside game to trying to master the inside game. He let Organizing for America wither, and he compromised with every major interest group that stood in his way.

I totally get that and I agree that Obama wasted a golden opportunity to employ the energy of his supporters after he got into office.  Bernie is way oversimplifying things though. Obama didn’t just stop when he got into office. He also was stopped short by the intractable obstructing of needing the government he promised to tear down to do the things he promised to do. threatening to fire everyone and/or tell them how to do their jobs is not a good way to introduce yourself to new coworkers. they will resist like the solid wall that Obama’s momentum crashed into once he stepped into the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism – Vox

When the going gets rough, which of these presidential candidates do you want by your side in a bar fight?

The Presidential Candidates Ranked By Their Usefulness In A Bar Fight – Bitter Empire

ahahahahahahahahahaha, yes!!!

Here is a stark reality for both Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders voters: Should your candidate win the presidency, he will disappoint you. Both candidates have whipped up voter passions by offering ideologically comforting — and strikingly similar — narratives promising political revolution. Both would fail to achieve such a momentous national transformation because popular opinion and the country’s system of checks and balances would get in the way. (See the Obama presidency.)

See the Obama presidency. Yeah, no shit. <Mumble, Mumble> Naïve freaking dopey ‘Bama supporters.

But another reason is that they have the “credibility” that comes from spending years angering “establishment” politicians — that is, people who have been sullied by having to govern in the real world of constraints and tradeoffs. Years of screaming from the fringes, refusing to deviate from a simplistic message as others ran the country, have given both men a massive political asset in 2016 — “authenticity” — and that quality alone is attracting people, particularly those who suspect that elite corruption or conspiracy is responsible for the country’s problems.

Sanders’s program recognize that it is not just politically impossible — it proposes a massive economic transition based on excessively optimistic budgetary assumptions. Cruz’s plan to carpet bomb Syria, meanwhile, does not even require close inspection to conclude it is shallow. These are among the indications that they would not bring good instincts to the real, harder decision-making that comes with the Oval Office — even if you agree with moving in the general direction one of them wants to go.

Authentically believing that the whole country secretly agrees with your agenda and will join you on the barricades is not a virtue, it is a fantasy. Sincerely proposing poorly thought-out policy does not change the fact that it is poorly thought-out policy.

Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are authentically wrong – The Washington Post

A-fucking-men, WaPo, a-fucking-men.

We know it is people partial to authoritarianism that like Trump. I’m so curious about the psychological traits that makes people such suckers for impossible pie-in-the-sky ill-advised bullshit….

He’s not a brave truth-teller. He’s just telling progressives what they want to hear.

Bernie Sanders’s fiction-filled campaign – The Washington Post

Yup. Although I wholeheartedly disagree with the assertion that Wall Street has undergone any meaningful reform.

We’ve gone from “Sad Jeb” to “Existentially Depressed Jeb.”

A Condensed Timeline of Jeb Bush’s Psychological Breakdown | Vanity Fair

hmmm

Liberals are right to be frustrated with the dreary Hillary Clinton. But if they want to win, they’ll have to nominate her.

Democrats would be insane to nominate Bernie Sanders – The Washington Post

hmmmm

I do not think it means what you think it means.

When you ask me to vote for Hillary — Medium

 

Sigh… I wish this bullshit would disappear. It reminds me of the whiny little bitches constantly degrading feminism with their divisive holier than thou bullshit.

From day one part of the Bernie’s supporters’ approach was to whine and bitch about how they weren’t getting any media coverage. Which is funny because they must not read the same articles or watch the same TV I do. Because, trust me, I am trying to avoid the primary nonsense whenever possible and I still manage to hear a lot about Bernie.

The typical holier than thou, everyone is out to get us and we are the only pure heart bs you get from both liberals and Fox News is bullshit in both those cases and its bullshit here too.

You are asking me to consciously give up on any hope I may have of living a sane life in our country. To vote for her in the primaries, I would need to believe that the establishment on both the right and the left have so thoroughly strangled the political system that it is no longer “reasonable” to even try for reform. I have to be so scared of political opponents gaining power that it is worth it to sacrifice even the hope of being able to get ahead, have a savings cushion, access healthcare, send our kids to college, retire, or just not feel like we’re constantly living on a knife’s edge, all because of fear of a potential future.

Oh the poor, poor, persecuted victims! …Except no one is telling you to be against reform. You’re making that up. Down the line Hillary and Bernie’s positions are nearly identical. All the memes about Bernie liking punk music in the world doesn’t change that. The major difference is one of style and approach, not policy.

You don’t like Hillary’s style and approach? Good for you. It’s a free country. Say that. But the love of good taste and not being douchey little assholes, stop trying to make things out as if you have come to this matter of taste because the other side is hugely different policy-wise. And for the love of God or Bernie or whatever else you call holy, stop painting your paranoid bullshit on top of people who disagree with you. That’s your crap, not theirs!

‘You support Hillary? Well, you must be a shallow, greedy asshole who has it out for those less fortunate than you are.’ Because that basically what the author is saying in the middle of the article.

It’s a lie and you are hurting the potential for the Democratic nominee to unify and energize the base in the general election. (You know, the election where the opponents actually have policy differences?)

I mean seriously… Is shit like this written by a fucked up adolescent with serious self image and persecution issues? Get over your fucking self. No one is bothering to think up all of this stuff except the people on your own side. It’s so obnoxious, it really turned me off to his campaign in general.

It you have to sound like Fox News or MSNBC to make a point? Shut the fuck up.

Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I’m going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works – The Oatmeal