05-20-2016, 09:40 AM
(05-19-2016, 10:02 PM)Bronco80 Wrote: I don't have a problem with Bernie taking his campaign to the convention, as long as he understands that he's going to lose and the purpose is to try to set the Democratic Party further to the left beyond 2016.
I use to feel that way, and had clearly stated that on the previous 4T Forums.
But no longer; not after what happen in Nevada and his choosing to again stress the outright lie that he has been treated unfairly and the Dem party is corrupt. It is an implicit endorsement of the type of disruption at the convention that will go a long way to enabling a Trump presidency. There's just too much at stake.
He's on an ego trip. Currently, he is not the Bernie that people fell in love with. He needs to be talked down off the ledge now. It needs to be made crystal clear that while a more progressive movement will continue within the Dem Party, his role will at best be some barely-tolerated relic. Some argue that he'll go off and start a 3rd party; Elizabeth Warren, a true progressive Democrat, will crush him if he tries.
On the other hand, if he can get a handle on his ego and and get back to it being about a movement, he should be able to see the large role he could still play in pushing that movement forward.
That's a direct message to the man, Bernie Sanders.
For the majority of his followers, the ones with more cerebral lobe rather than amygdala thinking, the message is that their guy is truly faced with a choice of destructive personal ego or sustained political movement - if he chooses the former, why are they continuing to support that?