question: if bernie loses the primary what will he do with the revolution he started?

[saturnsring]

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will he stay with the democratic party and try to keep the younger voters energized or will he leave the party and go back to being an independent?

[LiberalArkie]

1. That assumes he is the party nominee. That being the case God help us.

[saturnsring]

2. yea youre correct let me fix that.. i meant primary not g.e.

[Squinch]

3. The same as he has always done with his revolution.

[saturnsring]

5. will he stay a democrat?

[Squinch]

7. No. He is already getting the paperwork together for his next Senate run as an Independent.

[merrily]

9. One person with no idea of the correct answer, asking hundreds with no idea, either. Brilliant!

[saturnsring]

15. i think we already have an answer

[merrily]

18. Actually, you don't, but don't let it worry you because

your question wasn't sincere.

[saturnsring]

19. actually i think we do..Squinch (10,813 posts) 7. No. He is already getting the paperwork together f

Squinch (10,813 posts)
7. No. He is already getting the paperwork together for his next Senate run as an Independent.

i think that answers it dont you? or do you have some snarky smarter-than-thou retort for me

[merrily]

22. ? I already posted my response to you about that. See Replies 9 and 18.

[WhiteTara]

4. He is registered as an Independent for his 2018 Senate run.

[saturnsring]

6. oh ok i didnt know that sounds like he plans on leaving the dem party

[WhiteTara]

16. Vermont doesn't have party affliations

but I think this was just a convenience for him. And he said he would not be a spoiler.

[saturnsring]

17. i was hoping he'd stay in the party

[WhiteTara]

23. He doen't seem to like us much. nt

[RobertEarl]

8. What would you do?

If the establishment pissed all over you, called you names and screwed over the people again. What would you do?

[saturnsring]

11. i guess it would depend on how commited i am to the ball i started rolling

[RobertEarl]

20. How committed are you to democracy?

Bernie did a thousand times more than anyone on DU or in the party for democracy and the establishment and many DUers treated him like shit.

Good Job establishment. You showed him, eh?

I look at it and I say: fuck it. What's the use?

If Bernie said Fuck it, what would you do?

[saturnsring]

21. i would continue to do what ive been doing hopefully so will they who he energized/woke up

[RobertEarl]

25. What have you ever done?

Do you have a part in the revolution?

[LiberalArkie]

10. I don't really believe Bernie ever thought he would get this far. He wanted to start the dialog

again that we had in the 60's-70's and get away from Reagan's "Greed is good" attitude to more like JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country". He has laid out certain things we need to do as a society like Universal healthcare, infrastructure repairs, and others that you know of.

He has started the dialog, the secret is keeping it going. Getting enough your people to go that track in life instead of becoming MBA's.

As long as Bernie can get enough people to follow his lead and start down that path, he has won.

Bernie talked about starting a revolution, that is what he is talking about.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

29. Whatever he asks of us to do to keep it going, we would do that, wouldn't we?

No matter who wins in November we will still have a very fucked up ratio of wealth regards the rich to everybody else.

Still have many uninsured or under-insured as to their health, even with the tremendous accomplishment of ACA.

We will still have a lack of in place regulations to deal with climate change.

The list is endless. Nothing changes on election day, and nothing changes for a long time even if we win.

[Xolodno]

12. I don't think he ever expected to get this far....

Seemed his race at the onset was an ideological one to inflict socialist ideas into the Democratic Party and tilt it a little more left. He was probably surprised to find that there was a significant segment of the population that were on board.

And he's accomplished this much, push the Democratic Party further left of center and put the Republicans on notice, that hard right conservatism is on its death bed and they can't ignore it anymore and will have to move to the center, even if it means they have to abandon the hard right and let them regulate themselves to an irrelevant third party status, much like Ross Perot did.

[saturnsring]

13. agreed i think that too that he got in to push the conversation to the left

for once the dems are talking about how progressive they are instead of how center they are

[Viva_La_Revolution]

14. we will continue it of course

As he said, this is not about him, it's about us, the people taking our power back. But we sure do appreciate your concern.

[RandiFan1290]

24. We will continue to fight those on the wrong side of history

No matter how long it takes them to "evolve"

[Rebkeh]

26. Why would he have to be a member of any party at all to continue the revolution?

That doesn't make any sense, it's not an either/or situation.

[saturnsring]

28. well i guess he doesnt i was hoping he would stay

[yourout]

27. He will stay but you can kiss the millenials good bye.

[saturnsring]

30. what do you think the millenials are gonna do?

[azurnoir]

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