Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: If Bernie is the nominee, this is what I'll do. [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)Leave the Democratic Party.
I was an undefeated championship debator and loved debating both sides. Lots of fun that was a game.
I have seen up close how populists destroy confidence in government by over promising and under delivering.
I have seen how governments are destroyed by massive debt and cynicism becomes the order of the day.
I have seen how unrealistic populist schemes bankrupt the poor and the suicides that follow.
Fifty years I have fought for the Obama wing of the party with sensible achievable and sustainable change that builds confidence in government.
I will continue to work for individual candidates but the complete and utter destruction of a Republican landslide by a crook like Nixon was a once in a lifetime experience and I will not be hanging around for McGovern 2.0.
What makes this 100 times more aggravating than McGovern is we saw what happens when the US population is frightened by economic authoritarianism, they will vote for a crook first, but we had to take McGovern after Bobby was shot, in this case we have a dozen competent alternatives including Senator Warren who has made strong economic reform the mainstay of her campaign
The inability of the country to not choose Hillary over Trump will not be understood in the future and simply labeled political sexism at the highest level. Anyone choosing the wild Sanders over the realistic, competent and progressive Warren is simply doing the same.
As an independent I will vote against Trump but not for Sanders.
As a student of history I will witness the self destruction of the Democratic Party by nominating someone who has an active hatred for the party to lead it with detached objectivity.
As the US slides into despotic rule I will acknowledge how wrong I was. I always thought it would be the result of a radical religious movement and not by the antics of an illiterate carnival barker who aspired to become another Hugh Heffner.
By the way I loved him as a Senator. That angry voice had a use.
Bernie Sanders, the man who wanted to primary Obama will never unite the Democratic Party.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden