Democratic Primaries

"This pretense of not knowing what everybody knows has come to dominate our political discourse."

Actually, it is a fairly basic technique of trolling. The aim of trolling is to get a disproportionate reaction from someone. If with a simple one word query, 'Link?', someone can be baited to spend time searching the web for citations to prove something the person making the query already knows is true, he has won, in his own mind. He spent a few seconds time, and someone else devoted several minutes at least to making a reply. You may be sure any link posted would have been dismissed, probably for being out of context, in hope of repeating the pathetic little win.

Sanders has said on several occasions "I am not, and never have been, a liberal Democrat." Probably while mayor of Burlington, but as we all know, 'Bernie' sticks to his principles and is consistent, so there is no reason to suspect he has changed that view.

Anyone who wants to take the time can look it up. It's out there....






"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."