After Nevada, the Threats from the "Bernie or Bust" Crowd Grow Louder

[Fla Dem]

Give us what we want -- a Bernie Sanders nomination -- and no one gets hurt."

The Daily Banter
CHEZ PAZIENZA 2/23/2016

It began late Saturday afternoon in Nevada, as soon as it became clear that Hillary Clinton was going to win the Democratic caucus there. Maybe she wouldn’t win by 25 points, but the victory she’d pull off would be large enough for The Huffington Post to describe her as “handily” beating Bernie Sanders. And with that decisive victory, the first of its kind for Clinton this election season, the floodgates opened online and the rush of angry Sanders True Believers started to pour through. USUncut.com, the farcical internet clearing house for every kind of pro-Bern-feeling propaganda, called the entire caucus a “fiasco.” Crazy person H.A. Goodman, a fantasy writer turned Sanders’s own Baghdad Bob, upped his already delusional rhetoric and claimed that the Nevada loss only strengthened his argument that Bernie absolutely, positively will win the White House in a landslide. And of course Twitter lit up, as oodles of Sandersistas wailed, gnashed their teeth and promised not to vote for Clinton should she become the nominee because -- something something lying corporatist shill, or whatever.

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I still thinK many of those Bernie fanatics are RW operatives out to destroy HRC because they know they can't beat her. Unfortunately, those operatives eventually infect "normal" BS supporters and they become fanatics as well.

[artyteacher]

1. I <3 Chez and I think you're right. eom

[Cha]

2. Yeah, threats..that's the way to go. No thanks. I don't want bernie anywhere near the White House.

I want someone who is competent.. not some angry sour rager.

[pandr32]

12. DC would become completely broken--dysfunctional

Our government would be at a halt, but the Robber Barons wouldn't be

[yallerdawg]

3. Chez says:

If Bernie Sanders were to win, he’d get my vote. If Hillary Clinton were to win, she’d get my vote. That’s how, I believe, decent, evolved people think -- people who aren’t petulant children. I’d like to believe that the “Bernie or Bust” crowd is just making idle threats, but given its well-documented behavior over the past several months -- coupled with the fact that Bernie’s white millennial base likely believes it has the luxury of being able to survive in the GOP’s vision of future America -- it seems far more likely that if Sanders doesn’t win, they’ll stay home and sulk rather than do their civic duty for the good of the country.

What does that mean for the rest of us? It means we’ll simply have to do it without them. We’ll have no other choice.

Sad, sad, sad. But I agree with Chez.

[workinclasszero]

4. This is what happens when a campaign turns into a

cult of personality.

[ffr]

5. +1 Whichever side you/we are on, be skeptical of the ranting in favor of your candidate

BS & HRC are both excellent candidates and I wished both would win. You won't find me ever saying anything bad about them either, simply because I can't think of anything bad to say.

I'm immediately offended when a supporter or supposed supporter from either side makes odd negative claims about the other candidate. Sure, sometimes emotion plays on people in the heat of the moment, but I'm with Fla Dem, some of what has been said is outlandish crap that I find hard to believe from any real democratic supporter.

I'm leaning on operatives from the GOP who've infiltrated their way in, because they know their clown car candidates haven't a chance against either of ours. Don't take what harsh words they have to say to heart. Not voting in November if their candidate isn't the nominee? Definitely the type of person who you'll also find robo-calling before election day informing democrats that election day has been moved to Wednesday. Might as well sign their rant - Sincerely Joe GOP.

[MADem]

6. I think you're right. Some of the language I've heard doesn't sound at all "progressive" or

"liberal" (even though Sanders has insisted he is NOT one of those), and it doesn't sound big D Democratic, as in the party, either.

I know full well there are plenty of Democrats who DO support Sanders, and I think they are sincere, but they are being dragged along, some of them, by the "USUncut" (who thought THAT "Bro-y" name up, I wonder?) crowd.

It's ugly out there. Expect it to get uglier.

[Gothmog]

7. The Sanders revolution is not happening

There has been no Sanders revolution which means that the Sanders promises of single payer health care and other changes are not realistic

[ismnotwasm]

9. Yup

[72DejaVu]

10. Yeah, about that

[HillareeeHillaraah]

11. Revolution?

"We will have our Revolution or we will make certain America gets Trump!"

Revolution? You keep saying that word.

I don't think it means what you think it means...