Democratic Primaries

I would be inclined to strip Sanders today of seniority within the Senate's Democratic caucus, and of all committee assignments as well. I do not respond well to blackmail or threats. If he does not like it, let him cross the aisle and join McConnell in openly wrecking the country. At least then his actions would be 'free from the base alloy of hypocrisy'.

It must be remembered Sanders is not really running to secure the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. He is running against the 'Democratic Establishment' which he hopes to wreck, or to weaken sufficiently that he may take over the wreckage and shape it to a pattern he prefers. He never expected to ever get the nomination when he first considered running in 2012, and he does not expect to get it now. Doubtless for a few months he thought he had lightning in a bottle in the spring of 2016, and though that hope faded to ashes he could fall back on his original intention to wreck the "Democratic Establishment', thinking himself in the catbird seat when he made his demands. People who are not acting in good faith cannot expect to be treated with good faith. In fact, to be just, treatment of such persons should be obviously and glaringly unfair.





"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."