The End of Bernie Sanders and His Fake Political Revolution
At last, the long national nightmare of the Democratic Party’s Presidential Primary race is over. Senator Bernie Sanders, who arguably ran a spirited campaign albeit, a disingenuous, demagogic and unrealistic one, (though he has yet to formally concede defeat) has finally acknowledged that his path to the nomination is all but over. As a liberal, I know this is a provocative piece and one that is bound to be unpopular among young progressives. Also, given the full-scale efforts with which the Democratic “establishment” are courting Senator Sanders, treating him with kid gloves and twisting themselves into pretzels in the hope that he will quietly go away, I am certain this article …show more content…
After the Iowa Lessons for Liberals and Progressives from the Iowa Caucus I wrote this: Lessons for Liberals and Progressives from the Iowa Caucus. As the primaries progressed, it became clear to me that the Democratic Party was experiencing its own version of “Tea Party” activism and I wrote this: Bernie Sanders and The Emerging Progressive “Tea Party”. The points I made in these articles speak for themselves and are as true today as when I wrote them three and four months ago respectively. My problem with Bernie’s campaign is not that I don’t agree with most of what he was advocating or that they are bad. My problem is that first, they are mere proclamations, some of which are not anchored in facts. The second and perhaps, more importantly, is that they are promises that are devoid of any realism given our politics and entrenched interests. It does not make any sense to compare practices of Nordic countries with populations lesser than Rhode Island with little or no diversity anywhere close to what we have here in the U …show more content…
To his credit, he made the Democratic Party’s nomination race interesting. But I decry his tactics which in my opinion, he borrowed from Trump. I applaud the majority of democrats who did not fall for his fake revolution and worry about the inexperience and bad judgment of those who did. I know the debate is still going on whether his young supporters will join the rest of us to vote for the first woman president of the country. While the die-hard supporters have sworn off their support, I am heartened that about 80 plus percent of them will vote for Hillary Clinton. I believe that is good enough to make sure that Donald Trump never, ever, gets near the White House. And perhaps, as progressives, we have learned a good lesson with Bernie Sanders – that never again will we let an opportunist in, to divide and destabilize the
At last, the long national nightmare of the Democratic Party’s Presidential Primary race is over. Senator Bernie Sanders, who arguably ran a spirited campaign albeit, a disingenuous, demagogic and unrealistic one, (though he has yet to formally concede defeat) has finally acknowledged that his path to the nomination is all but over. As a liberal, I know this is a provocative piece and one that is bound to be unpopular among young progressives. Also, given the full-scale efforts with which the Democratic “establishment” are courting Senator Sanders, treating him with kid gloves and twisting themselves into pretzels in the hope that he will quietly go away, I am certain this article …show more content…
After the Iowa Lessons for Liberals and Progressives from the Iowa Caucus I wrote this: Lessons for Liberals and Progressives from the Iowa Caucus. As the primaries progressed, it became clear to me that the Democratic Party was experiencing its own version of “Tea Party” activism and I wrote this: Bernie Sanders and The Emerging Progressive “Tea Party”. The points I made in these articles speak for themselves and are as true today as when I wrote them three and four months ago respectively. My problem with Bernie’s campaign is not that I don’t agree with most of what he was advocating or that they are bad. My problem is that first, they are mere proclamations, some of which are not anchored in facts. The second and perhaps, more importantly, is that they are promises that are devoid of any realism given our politics and entrenched interests. It does not make any sense to compare practices of Nordic countries with populations lesser than Rhode Island with little or no diversity anywhere close to what we have here in the U …show more content…
To his credit, he made the Democratic Party’s nomination race interesting. But I decry his tactics which in my opinion, he borrowed from Trump. I applaud the majority of democrats who did not fall for his fake revolution and worry about the inexperience and bad judgment of those who did. I know the debate is still going on whether his young supporters will join the rest of us to vote for the first woman president of the country. While the die-hard supporters have sworn off their support, I am heartened that about 80 plus percent of them will vote for Hillary Clinton. I believe that is good enough to make sure that Donald Trump never, ever, gets near the White House. And perhaps, as progressives, we have learned a good lesson with Bernie Sanders – that never again will we let an opportunist in, to divide and destabilize the