Surprise For NYT: BERNIE IS ELECTABLE!

[ConservativeDemocrat]

140. Oh my. I completely forgot Bob Kerrey

My bad. I blame a faulty memory on that point. And so you have me on that one point. Good job.

As for the rest, you're now pivoting to dreaming of the halcyon days of Roosevelt and Truman, who were neck-deep with the southern racist Democrats - which if you're from the south, you should know. That coalition of working class whites who hate free trade agreements and hate To Kill a Mockingbird, voted Democratic once upon a time, but they don't anymore, and that's not going to come back, period. Neither is the U.S. economy of the 1950s, which was supported more by the fact that the rest of the world was rebuilding from WW2, and/or under Communist mismanagement. ( If you think *any* economic policy is going to allow a highschool drop-out to have a high-wage blue collar job, you're dreaming. Even protectionism won't bring that back - too many hungry people around the world. )

The "Team Blue group", as you call them, are simply sick and tired of being bashed by assholes. I've yet to see a purely negative anti-Bernie graphic on this site, while there are plenty of "Ready for someone else" banners running around, and that is the absolute least offensive thing they do. They love to scream "Corporatist" (the new synonym for "Capitalist Pig&quot , and "Warmonger" at people, pretend as if debating economic theory is a matter of black and white, and generally act as if 80% of the Democrats who don't think exactly as they do are somehow morally deficient. Your accusation of "Everything is winning, nothing is substance", and "when their team is caught cheating" (with no reference to what this so-called "cheating" is), is a perfect example, though I must say that at least you use facts.

Now, I'm sure you disagree, and that's fine. Fortunately, we will see in less than a year exactly which candidate that actual Democratic voters prefer: a woman with huge name recognition and world standing, or a guy who calls himself a "socialist", looks like he should be retired rather than being able to handle the rigors of the office of the Presidency, can't even manage to find a comb, with an angry fan-base of purity-trolls determined to split the Democratic coalition into such tiny pieces it couldn't win dog-catcher. When the actual voters do make their voices heard, I'm sure the same DU screamers will make a bunch of upvoted posts about them leaving the Democratic party, because after a year of her leading by 40% or more, they'll jump on the absurd claim the votes were all "bought", and it's all corruption, etc., etc. I've seen it before. When Kucinich didn't win over Obama, they were screaming about that as well.

But hell, at least we're not the Republicans, where the angry kooks have taken over the party.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community