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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie just proved [View all]PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)34. She has only been running for 20 years
How much longer does she need?
An upstart grass roots candidate should never have made it this far, if she was a good candidate.
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Meanings of words and ideologies are defined and are not relative, else no dictionary would exist.
Dragonfli
Apr 2016
#132
Here's the word Cajunblazer was looking for- Ideologue. Sanders and many of his supporters
KittyWampus
Apr 2016
#138
I never called anyone a communist, because I don't know that would be true...
CajunBlazer
Apr 2016
#100
Yeah, corporations would be making loans against perfectly financially sound government agencies
notadmblnd
Apr 2016
#112
How about: Progressive means you don't take $150,000,000 in "speaking fees" from
jack_krass
Apr 2016
#123
Hell, for $150,000 I'll give a speech to either the KKK or Socialist USA convention
CajunBlazer
Apr 2016
#127
Yeah we don't need some loser like Maduro running this country into the ground thankyou
snooper2
Apr 2016
#88
Everything looks extreme left when you live on the right side of the political spectrum.
frylock
Apr 2016
#91
We should ask Robert Kagen, Henry Kissinger, Lloyd Blankfein, and the Koch brothers
LondonReign2
Apr 2016
#108
And some of her socially liberal positions are of political convenience, i.e.,
LondonReign2
Apr 2016
#109
If he can't handle this little primary, he'd never survive the GOP. You think THIS was bad?
NurseJackie
Apr 2016
#6
He proved the Roberts court correct, he outspent Hillary and still lost... that's a shame
uponit7771
Apr 2016
#43
This is absurd. He's within a few percentage points of beating the most anointed front-runner ever.
reformist2
Apr 2016
#8
No shit. She was supposed to be inevitable and he was a kooky unknown.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#117
Why not say, "this plantation provides housing and meals for 100 percent of the slaves on it?"
JCanete
Apr 2016
#65
Most Americans want Wall Street regulated, Sanders can't be trusted to do this after his CFMA vote
uponit7771
Apr 2016
#47
He didn't do the homework to be taken seriously as a candidate that thought not with frontal lobe of
seabeyond
Apr 2016
#14
Never logged into reddit... never owned an iPhone. However, my privileged friends who die over
ScreamingMeemie
Apr 2016
#17
He absolutely did not. He wanted to run on economic justice and campaign finance reform
MadBadger
Apr 2016
#31
so lazy bernie is the new meme, huh? i see it sprinkled throughout this thread...
dionysus
Apr 2016
#134
Put him down then say he should work with Hillary. You just proved how utterly disrespectful you
bkkyosemite
Apr 2016
#33
He just proved how the money and leadership are stacked against progressives. n/t
Orsino
Apr 2016
#60
That I am my Darlin. This troll was one of the nastiest and there another obvious one
Autumn
Apr 2016
#119
He is anti trump so will support Hillary. but in the general. the independents
larkrake
Apr 2016
#110
if at first you don't succeed...TM apparently worked at perfecting his/her craft...
islandmkl
Apr 2016
#137
I don't think Sanders won 18 states with only the votes of Reddit users. NT
Eric J in MN
May 2016
#144