— Musings —03.04.2020 10:40 AM
Trump = Sanders
Attacking the party they want to lead. Falsely claiming the vote is rigged. Smearing anyone who disagrees with them on anything. Finding fantasy conspiracies everywhere. Sound like @realDonaldTrump and his cabal in 2016? It's also @BernieSanders and his cabal in 2020. #USpolitics
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 4, 2020
Also, outsiders/tourists in their respective parties. And crybabies when they don’t get their way.
Exactly both are populists who want to blow up the system not work with it. Both are ideologues who see the world in black and white and have no tolerance for compromise, nuances, or different viewpoints. Hopefully Democrats won’t get hijacked like GOP did. Threat of right wing populists is most notable, but left wing populism is a threat too. They already hijacked UK Labour party, they just haven’t won any elections yet.
And they won’t as long as the far-left is in charge. If the Maomentum (oops I mean Momentum) gang manage to elect Long-Bailey as leader, this time there will be a formal split.
Also, most people who personally know these guys don’t like them. The antithesis of people who reach across the aisle. Sanders has basically spent years in the Senate not making friends. Trump spent decades in New York and Jersey pissing people off, stiffing them and making enemies.
It does show a fundamentally anarchist/nihilist streak in a significant chunk of the electorate that they think people like that ought to be in charge of government.
Bingo. I wish more people would see this, but sadly some folks just like strong personalities. Somehow this makes them “better” in their view.
Oh really? Are you going to try and persuade us that the establishment Democrats didn’t want to sink Bernie. Come on. Biden never came close to drawing large crowds the old commie Bernie did. The Democrats do what they do best and that is steal elections. Biden is corrupt and that is not a conspiracy.
The fact that some demagogue can draw crowds does not necessarily mean that a majority or even a plurality of the population supports that demagogue. It’s like arguing that if a bunch of protestors are marching down the street, unless there’s a larger counterprotest in the immediate vicinity, then those protestors reflect the will of the majority.
Well they just changed the rules so Tulsi Gabbard cant be on the debate stage with Joe and Bernie in the next debate. Naw its not rigged at all.
Shawn: I agree with you its rigged. When Biden doesn’t know what state he is in it is scary!! He has other blunders also but we don’t want to talk about that! The Dem’s want Bernie OUT not that he is my favourite either.