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If Superdelegates Weren’t a Fraud, Could they Help the Dems Win the White House?

Hey Pink! I pretty much feel the same way. On the one hand, I commend Sanders for entering the race and changing the national conversation.
I saw him on an episode of Bill Maher’s Real Time, before he started his bid for the presidency, and Maher asked him if he thought about running. He said if he did, it would be to get the national conversation centered on the real issues of social justice and economic fairness. He registered as a dem so he could debate Hillary and possibly move her more to the left. He has accomplished all of that, yet still he persists. I think it’s now an ego thing. He’s really enjoying his new found national fame and I think it’s gone to his head.

I also agree about him biting the hand that fed him. If he had run as an independent, without the democratic party, he would never have come as far as he has. Now he’s been attacking the party for a few weeks now. I don’t find that to be a desirable quality in people. He seems to be going the way of many “revolutionaries,” before him. He should know better.

Now he’s beginning to remind me of the British Officer in Bridge Over the River Kwai who got caught up too much in building that bridge, and it became his downfall.

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Weekend Music Thread – Gimmie Some Truth

I’ve always like it.

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Great pick P!

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Hey Stranger!

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Great pick A!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNNxeovdN5U

A genuine revolutionary! Gunned down in the prime of life!

» Posted By KillgoreTrout On May 14, 2016 @ 8:07 pm

Nearly 50 years ago. The beginning of the “revolution.”

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Weekend Music Thread – Mother and Child Reunion

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Nobody Wants To Be The Bad Guy – Political Conversation In The 21st Century

Homie, some of Trump’s supporters ARE bad people. Very nasty human beings. That guy that sucker punched a protester is not a lone wolf.
The old man who shot pepper spray into a teenage girls face, because she was a protester.
Trump encourages this, and there are those, that have long awaited a guy like Trump to validate their hatred and violence. It’s scary and quite real.

» Posted By KillgoreTrout On April 19, 2016 @ 7:37 pm

Oh I’m sure of it agrippa. We get the politicians we deserve. If we keep electing lunatics and swindlers and egomaniacs, the only direction is down.
Is civics actually taught in high school these days? It’s embarrassing that so many people in America, people who were born and raised here, have little to no clue how our government and our political processes work. Not even the basics.
I also think there are so many distractions for younger people, that any valuable knowledge that needs to be attained, gets lost in market place. But in a way, that’s a cop out.
I’m not a paranoid person by nature, and not really a conspiracy theorist, but sometimes I can’t help thinking that this is by design!

“Those that know the least, obey the best.” Farquar

» Posted By KillgoreTrout On April 19, 2016 @ 7:32 pm

With worms on my tongue! Baited Breath! 😉

» Posted By KillgoreTrout On April 19, 2016 @ 7:25 pm

Hey Homie! Isn’t it a real pleasure when conversation of a polemic nature turns out the way your recent one did? You may just have gotten that person to think anew about people she obviously didn’t have a very high opinion of. She may rethink her views on the people who support Sanders.

I love to argue. I also really enjoy intelligent discourse, but I do not suffer foolish people gladly. I always try to keep personal opinions, ones that may be negative about a person I’m having a discussion with, to myself. I don’t always succeed, and I’m not really proud of it. I can be somewhat of a smart ass at times, and I’ll usually make some sort of snide joke about a person who has no interest in real conversation and only wants to insult and condemn those with differing views. In other words, trolls. I have no patience at all with people like that. Sometimes I get frustrated with people who seem to have no capacity for reason and logic, and operate solely on raw emotion. There’s really no getting through to those sorts.
I especially lose patience with people who say they’ll never vote for Hillary if she is the nominee. I understand the ideology of this political revolution, but the world and our lives in it, often times requires pragmatism, even if it means siding with someone we know is pretty flawed in some ways.
Sanders himself has said that he thinks Hillary is miles above any of the GOP candidates, and I think he’s right. He also has said he will support her if she gets the nomination. I just don’t understand how some people still say they will refuse to vote for the dem nominee if it’s Hillary, when their political hero has clearly stated that he would.
I voted for Bernie in Ohio’s primary. I will certainly vote for him if he is the nominee. But if it’s Hillary, I will vote for her. She’s the old guard and Bernie is the new. I would like the new to get a shot, for a change, but out of necessity, I’ll accept the old, if that’s the only choice. I know that at least Hillary won’t destroy all the progress that our president has fought so hard for, the last 8 years. She may even accomplish a few progressive things along the way.
No matter who the dem president turns out to be, if the dems win the general, that person is going to face the same obstructionism and implacable petulance as president Obama has had to face. There are no magic wands.
Our best hope is to make some major changes in the house and senate. That is going to take time.
The political revolution that Bernie is calling for, is basically the same thing president Obama called for, active participation in our own democracy. The call to vote in every election and not just every four years (sorry for preaching to the choir). This saddens me in a way, because what is now considered revolutionary was once simply referred to as doing one’s civic duty. How far we’ve fallen, eh?
I really hope, by some miracle, that Bernie not only wins the nomination, but the general as well. It’s time in America for a more FDR like president. But if it’s Hillary, I’m perfectly willing to give her a shot. Who knows, she may surprise all of us.
There is simply far too much to lose by allowing the republicans such power. Real people will be harmed by the republicans. Far more so than by anything Hillary would do.
End of brief essay! 😉 Thanks for the post Homie.

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Weekend Music Thread – Do the Numbers

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