Looking Glass World: Our problem, Bernistas, is we have let the Opposition corner

[Proserpina]

all the crap, carping, and conspiracy theories!

(I'm running a parallel development to this sterling piece of...opinion found over the hills and far away... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110735585 )

I guess that's normal. The Corporatists on both the left and the right are always the most complaining and miserable SOBs when they don't get their way. But we cannot let our Corporate wing zealots take over our party without a fight.

I guess I lied to myself about no longer fighting the good fight in the Primaries forum.

I'll be damned if I am stand by an let the Third Way, Corporate wing of my party put us in the position of losing the Presidency and both houses of Congress plus the opportunity to set the direction of the Supreme Court for the next 20 years so they can stand on their principles and nominate the unelectable.


(edited to add the bolding...now, it's perfect!)

[djean111]

1. Kind of sadly horrific - standing on one's principles, evidently, is viewed as wrong or bad,

to some. Maybe they don't have any principles to stand on?

[Cassiopeia]

7. They do

only it's the principles of the 1%, not the 99%.

[tk2kewl]

12. like GWB said...

"If you don't stand for something, you don't stand for anything."

or as the real saying goes:

if you don't stand for something, you'll be fooled by anything

[99th_Monkey]

2. "Eeek!! The far left wing zealots are at the gate with pitchforks" LOL n/t

[libdem4life]

5. ...and with our voter registration cards at the ready. Sorry, we don't eat cake, either.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I just learned I was a far-left-wing zealot!

Guess I'll have to dig through my college souvenirs from the '60s to see if I can find my FREE HUEY NEWTON button. Power to the people, man.

It's sort of sad that they can't figure out that enthusiasm can't be created from the top down...

[Proserpina]

4. The whole thing is sad

It's the difference between your grandfather's babied blue-grass lawn, and AstroTurf (tm)

It's the difference between lightning, and the lightning bug (Mark Twain)

It's the difference between a real movement, and a.....well, I won't go there, but I'm thinking it real hard!

[libdem4life]

6. telepathically received ... LOL

[daleanime]

15. Just don't push too hard....

you could hurt yourself.

[Fawke Em]

13. We're, apparently, all affluent and white, too.

I'll admit I'm white, but I'm hardly affluent. I make OK money, but I'm deep in debt.

[Fuddnik]

16. I couldn't find my old Yippie! buttons, but after watching Bernies new ad...

I did manage to dig out my old Simon and Garfunkle, Live from Central Park album.

[LiberalElite]

18. I still have a McGovern

button somewhere.

[hootinholler]

8. How does one capture enthusiasm?

What does that even mean?

[Proserpina]

9. Good Question!

Since I am not a forensic psychiatrist, I cannot help you there.

[LiberalElite]

19. you put out bait

like a phony smile,for instance.

[draa]

10. I saw that OP eariler and had to laugh.

Enthusiasm, like everything else in today's world, is now a commodity with limited supply and Berners have cornered the market.

[Proserpina]

11. Enthusiasm is a Renewable Resource! Just add hope and change

and keep on changing!

[retrowire]

14. Sorry third wayers, we're the majority.

That's democracy for ya.

[passiveporcupine]

17. I finally begin to learn a little more about myself

This is not the far left wing of the party, it's a bunch of folks who are suffering from Derangment syndrome as I've seen it posted elsewhere. They keep crowing about how they wish to destroy the party, how some are independents who don't give to figs about the party in general.

It's funny, they want to call us far left wing zealots, and that we are the extreme not the norm. Then why are there so many coming out in support of Bernie? That is not the far left, it's just the left, merging toward the center.