People, especially well-meaning persons among 'Bernie's' supporters, need to get it through their heads that Sanders campaigns not to gain the Democratic Party's nomination for President, but to weaken if not wreck the 'Democratic Establishment'. For 'Bernie', ousting Trump and ending the Republican majority in the Senate is barely an afterthought to this long-standing purpose. Once Sanders' supporters face this fact squarely, they may be able to decide honestly what their best course in this election is: voting against 'Bernie' in any future primary, and for Mr. Biden and Democrats all down the ticket to the lowest office on the ballot come November.

It is probably true that Sanders sees destroying the 'Democratic Establishment' as an essential precondition to defeating Trump et al, and so by his own lights he means it when he says he will do all he can to defeat Trump. But that belief is so self-serving and delusional it deserves not just scorn but contempt.

As with Trump, the only real cure is to deprive the man of the oxygen of worshipful attention. The effect would be that of a bucket of water on the wicked witch of Oz....





"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."

But I know of two in my private life. They are staunch Sanders supporters and have stated they just can't vote for a status quo candidate like Biden. Hopefully someone closer to them can talk some sense into them by November.

or does their conscience allow them to elect a status-quo insane con artist?

Better off staying home. They're not needed then. I think most Bernie supporters do have an intellect and see where this is headed if they don't get involved.

but at this moment in time I am not worried about Democrats voting for Biden. Most polls and surveys I've seen show Dems voting for their candidate in the 90-95% range. Somebody even posted a new one here (Monmouth, perhaps?) that had them at a whopping 96%. Quinnipiac came out with one early this month showing 93% of all Dems will vote for a D with another 3% of others not yet decided...

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3657

If things stay roughly as they appear to be (which obviously they may not) Biden's chances look real good to me. What DOES have me much more worried is this...

2020 U.S. Senate election odds: Will Democrats or Republicans get control in November?

https://www.baltimoresun.com/gambling/sns-actnet-2020-senate-election-odds-20200322-b3exzzrj5zd6nmnnt43khllgcy-story.html

Pubbies currently favored to hang onto the Senate by odds of 54.5% to the Dems 45.5%.

IMO, this old turtle-faced SOB is in some ways every bit as dangerous as his master. It would be too freaking cruel if Biden won the White House and the Dems kept the House and perhaps even increased the number of seats they have if the GOP ends up with 51 Senate seats and this rotten MFer was still the Majority Leader.

and apparently there are enough voters in Kentucky to beat him.

I'll dump my beloved Steelers next season and root for your Bears! Assuming there IS a season.

My political wet dream would be to have the Dems win 49 seats...and then stay up real late watching former fighter pilot McGrath squeak by in an upset and shoot Moscow Mitch down giving Dems 50 seats and control of the Senate. Hooboy, how effing sweet would THAT be???

McConnell is one of the least popular Senators of all...

https://morningconsult.com/senator-rankings/

4 of the despised Goppers on that list are up for reelection. Another one not shown is that Loeffler gal in Georgia who is up for a special election and is one who has gotten caught up in the recent insider stock trading scandal. Some folks think GA is in play as a swing state for President...I am not as optimistic as they are for Biden to win that state but Dems need to pour money into their Senate election...and I mean POUR.

That is a made up excuse by the old Dixiecrats who were racist pieces who ran to vote for Republicans because they decided to be not a party of the people with conservative ideas, but a party of whites only need apply..

are NOT Democrats.

Period.

I can concur with this.
My grandson accused me of betraying him in the primary because I said I preferred Warren to Sanders. Never mind that I voiced my concerns about Sanders and his ability to form effective coalitions (something that Sanders has shown very little interest in). However, he has now cut me off; doesn't want to talk with me; accuses me of supporting big business against the likes the him; jeopardizing his health; putting in peril the LBGT community; compromising the well-being of his generation; and more. This, even when I made it really clear that I liked, and still like and support, much of what Sanders wants to see happen. The verbal abuse was extreme, and yes, he too has no intention of voting for Biden, and intends to make a "protest" vote. My response that you are voting for Trump if you do not vote for Biden, was aggressively countered as, again, betraying the ideals of being a Progressive.
Their ignorance of how the American elections work is appalling!

Not all of them are willing to vote for Biden. But I would suggest that more of them are persuadable than those on the extreme left. It's a balancing act, and Biden is fully aware that he will lose some, both on the left and on the right.

Here on DU, we are forgetting just how big a tent the Democratic Party is. DUers are a fairly isolated community that tends to be substantially left of center.

Considering Biden's impressive success with the Primary voters, I am amazed at the balancing act he had succeeded to pull off. Gives me lots of hope for the General Election.

Comey too.

the impact he had on that election.

It amazes me how much the media has downplayed his role and its effect on the outcome. In reality, Comey dominated that election from start to finish.

One percent of the vote in three states cost Hillary the election. If she'd have picked up just that much more in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, she'd be in the White House now and we'd still have a pandemic response team and wouldn't be sheltering in place.

But where would it have come from? 7% of the African American vote stayed home in those three states. Stein got a lot of Bernie voters, way more than a third party should have collected. It was more than one factor, but Bernie's stay at home crowd was part of it. That better not happen again or the progressive movement and all those young congressmen who got swept into office by it will be gone, voted out, done.

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