Originally Posted by CPWILL
1. Your complaint that Biden has a history of managing to get Republicans to sign on to his proposals, whereas Sanders has a history of not doing so, is effectively a complaint that Biden knows how to succeed in achieving policy goals in our system of government, whereas Bernie does not.

I think we already went over a baker's dozen of those proposals, none of which serves the needs of the working class.

Unfortunately that does not translate to a Bernie success in the White House. That's not Bernie's fault, it's ours.
I've said countless times, that when billionaires and corporate think tanks spend the kind of lavish sums they spend at crafting effective messaging against progressive change that would benefit working families, they expect to get results that favor their side.

And they have.
We can't have nice things because we've bought into the suggestion that having nice things would turn us into Cuba.

I don't remember anyone in Burlington getting their head chopped off for being too much of a capitalist.
If you can find the guillotines Bernie used on evil Vermont capitalists, I'd love to get a peek at them.
Ben & Jerry are doing rather well, last I checked, and so are the Vermont dairy farmers who supply all the milk they use for their ice cream.

That said,



I went on the internet and I found this:

Russian Media Freak Over Joe Biden’s Election Resurrection

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The Kremlin-controlled media hoped and, it would seem, believed that Bernie Sanders would get the Democratic nomination, paving the way to victory for Donald Trump.

Russian propagandists echoed that anticipation. Appearing on Rossiya 24, analyst Dmitry Drobnitsky predicted that in the event Sanders does not receive a nomination, street protests and violence will follow: “There will be unrest in Milwaukee… There will be a repeat of the 1968 Democratic Convention [riots] in Chicago.”
Last year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report identified "dozens" of U.S. political rallies organized on social media by the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian troll farm whose operatives were indicted for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

---So there it is, the Russian plan for influencing American elections.

The facts are the facts. Bernie has a loyal following and rightly so, but unfortunately his numbers are about a third less than they were in 2016, and the youth vote that he was counting on this time around actually evaporated compared to even 2016.

But through it all, The Kremlin has been hoping for a repeat of Chicago 1968, the Democratic Convention, when there was violence in the streets, and where the Left sat out the election, giving us Nixon instead of Humphrey.

But Trump isn't Nixon.
He's not even fit to shine Nixon's shoes, and I say that as a liberal Democrat who voted for Sanders in the primaries in California last week.

I love Bernie, I think he would do a lot of good for America. But his numbers clearly say that America apparently isn't ready for steps that big. We don't have the stomach for it.
We don't have "the GUTS", the political will.

So I ask all of you, is the solution four more years of Donald Trump, and fulfillment of The Kremlin's desires?

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