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Iamaartist

(3,300 posts)
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:06 PM Mar 2016

Bernie Sanders and Campaign Psychosis

:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monica-bauer/bernie-sanders-and-campai_b_9563282.html

Its kinda like a denial stage can happen when losing ........its a human reaction to all of us at times


And it is now seems to be on full display in the campaign of Bernie Sanders. I do not blame the Sanders campaign for this. It is part of the natural life cycle of campaigns. It is human nature.


Campaign psychosis has the following symptoms; grasping at straws, wishful thinking, and in its final stages, outright hypocrisy that everyone outside the campaign can hear clear as a bell.
One of the first features of campaign psychosis is the traditional grasping at straws. Arguments were made in a widely-covered campaign phone briefing to journalists on the morning of March 28th with Sanders campaign manager Tad Devine, that, hey, don’t look at those states we lost on Super Tuesday. Those defeats are meaningless! Because Bernie didn’t compete there! No, we just conceded all those states to Clinton, because they were in the South. But now that we’re not in the South, we are actually going to compete, and that changes everything! This argument was demolished that same evening, by one of the most Bernie-friendly of cable journalists, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. She had evidence on her side, and quotes, and... evidence. She gently encouraged the Sanders team to walk back their statements because their arguments didn’t hold water.

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Bernie Sanders and Campaign Psychosis (Original Post) Iamaartist Mar 2016 OP
Grief counselors will be needed by the thousands cosmicone Mar 2016 #1
Losing Stage..... Iamaartist Mar 2016 #2
Someone needs to be talking to Blizzard and all the other game developers stopbush Mar 2016 #3
Or release of new sequels of Batman, Superman and Harry Potter n/t cosmicone Mar 2016 #4
No no no 72DejaVu Mar 2016 #5
Naw, those all tend to be single-player games. stopbush Mar 2016 #7
As a millennial HRC supporter MirrorAshes Mar 2016 #6
I didn't say every millennial. stopbush Mar 2016 #8
Oh No Not To June lol Iamaartist Mar 2016 #9
"It's just a flesh-wound!" nt CalvinballPro Mar 2016 #10
There's never a bad time for a Monty Python reference! NurseJackie Mar 2016 #12
The world still turns, the sun still comes up in the east and goes down in the west. As Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #11
Great article. Thank you. Stand and Fight Mar 2016 #13
Thank-you very much Iamaartist Mar 2016 #14
Our Next President..... Iamaartist Mar 2016 #15
you are having fun! all by your lonesome!! Her Sister Mar 2016 #16
I didn't realize how bad it was until the bird incident. DawgHouse Mar 2016 #17
And Susan Sarandon..... LisaM Mar 2016 #18
 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
1. Grief counselors will be needed by the thousands
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:08 PM
Mar 2016

when Bernie loses.

Can they do therapy via facebook, twitter and reddit?

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
3. Someone needs to be talking to Blizzard and all the other game developers
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:14 PM
Mar 2016

to move up their new-game release dates to June, rather than waiting for the Xmas season.

There's going to be millions of millennials looking to their X-Boxes and Play Stations for comfort after BS loses. A new game might come in handy.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
7. Naw, those all tend to be single-player games.
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:21 PM
Mar 2016

Need the online, multiplayer stuff!

No, I don't know what I'm talking about!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
11. The world still turns, the sun still comes up in the east and goes down in the west. As
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:49 PM
Mar 2016

we have made it through difficult times.

 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
16. you are having fun! all by your lonesome!!
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 07:45 PM
Mar 2016

HAHA!

But anyway, that article is great!! A lot of good there!:

Campaign psychosis has the following symptoms; grasping at straws, wishful thinking, and in its final stages, outright hypocrisy that everyone outside the campaign can hear clear as a bell.

One of the first features of campaign psychosis is the traditional grasping at straws. Arguments were made in a widely-covered campaign phone briefing to journalists on the morning of March 28th with Sanders campaign manager Tad Devine, that, hey, don’t look at those states we lost on Super Tuesday. Those defeats are meaningless! Because Bernie didn’t compete there! No, we just conceded all those states to Clinton, because they were in the South. But now that we’re not in the South, we are actually going to compete, and that changes everything! This argument was demolished that same evening, by one of the most Bernie-friendly of cable journalists, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. She had evidence on her side, and quotes, and... evidence. She gently encouraged the Sanders team to walk back their statements because their arguments didn’t hold water.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monica-bauer/bernie-sanders-and-campai_b_9563282.html

LisaM

(27,803 posts)
18. And Susan Sarandon.....
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:02 PM
Mar 2016

watching the defense of that meltdown was interesting - denying that she speaks for Sanders, when she has actually gone out on the trail with him.

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