https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/446...ries-again

"If there are 200 on-air news personalities on cable news, it would be surprising if more than two voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2016. There is almost universal disdain for Sanders on television and in print. Anyone who denies that and says that Sanders gets us much positive coverage as everyone else is living in an alternate reality. Does anyone in their right mind really think that Sanders is treated the same as the other candidates? Of course not.

Just in the last two weeks, there have been two hatchet jobs on him in The New York Times and Politico. But that’s par for the course and happens pretty much every week. If there’s ever a positive article about Sanders, it’s passed around like wildfire online because it’s so shocking that you have to share it with your friends like other online curiosities that are hard to believe.

If you can’t see the disparity between the coverage of South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), which is nearly universally fawning and obsequious, and the coverage of Sanders, which is universally contemptuous and disdainful, you’re so biased you can’t even see your own bias....


The New York Times and The Washington Post are arguably worse. Their core assumption is that maintaining the status quo is not a perspective, so it is the correct baseline by which to judge all other perspectives. Anyone who wants to challenge or change the current system is treated as a radical and delegitimized. This is a form of deplatforming. You implicitly never share the opinions you don’t agree with while never acknowledging it and pretending that your perspective is the only legitimate one. This de facto deplatforming is in some ways more odious because it’s done in the dark of night without having the honesty to admit it...."

<So WaPo knows about Democracy dying in the darkness from their own practice--of course the guy writing this article thinks the country is 60% progressive!!!>

Oh I'm sure they want him out too.

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Let them eat each other, I'm glad.

In his most recent weekend column - - https://nypost.com/2019/06/01/william-ba...ussia-lie/ - - the incomparable New York Post political pundit Michael Goodwin describes the New York Times as "the errand boy for the deep state" and The Washington Post and CNN as "cheerleaders for coercive liberalism".

Someone such as Sen. Sanders, who may be an ideological ally but has not been accepted into the anointed leadership, is expendable.

https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/03/wh...-so-angry/

But he is angry enough!

"Bernie Sanders is mad. He fulminates about the abundance of consumer choices, such as “23 underarm spray deodorants” and “18 different pairs of sneakers.” He rails against credit card companies because he thinks their interest rates are too high. He thunders over the prices Americans pay for prescription drugs.

The Democratic senator from Vermont, who is truly a socialist, having campaigned for a Marxist group in the 1980s, is perpetually upset with the way private banks conduct their business, and forever enraged at corporations for making profits. When he speaks, he comes off as that bitter man who shakes his fist at those darned neighborhood kids. There’s a reason Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others have called Sanders the “crazy uncle in the attic.” He’s mad because everyone won’t do as he says.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is another angry democratic socialist....


The Left’s anger and seething resentment of the achievements of Western civilization is puzzling, especially when it’s directed toward America, and American institutions and traditions...."

Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

(06-03-2019 06:56 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

Very few moderates left in the Democratic Party. Moderately left, yes. Moderates, no. Moderates are mostly independent now.

(06-03-2019 07:21 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 06:56 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

Very few moderates left in the Democratic Party. Moderately left, yes. Moderates, no. Moderates are mostly independent now.

Nailed it. Quite a few have "exited stage left".

(06-03-2019 07:21 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 06:56 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

Very few moderates left in the Democratic Party. Moderately left, yes. Moderates, no. Moderates are mostly independent now.

As a former Dem this is the truth. I did not leave the Dem party they left me. I am Blue Dog Democrat, which is now not accepted in the New Dem party.

(06-03-2019 07:21 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 06:56 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

Very few moderates left in the Democratic Party. Moderately left, yes. Moderates, no. Moderates are mostly independent now.

I wouldn't even give them moderately left. At least not among the leadership.

One thing that really bothers me is that I have a number of friends whom I have considered to be reasonably intelligent and well educated, but whom I have seen as being moderately left. They all seem to be falling, without questioning, for the Green New Deal and single-payer health care and the rest of the radical left agenda. These are people that I have long thought were reasonably rational and who would do things carefully and thoughtfully, but who seem to be simply following their party wherever it leads. I queried one of them abut this and he said, "I believe in staying with my party and holding their feet to the fire," to which I responded, "But you're not doing much holding of any feet to any fire." That exchange kind of summarizes my thinking.

The moderates have left the party. The moderately left seem to be following their party leadership to the left fringe, like following the pied piper.

(06-03-2019 08:24 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 07:21 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 06:56 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

Very few moderates left in the Democratic Party. Moderately left, yes. Moderates, no. Moderates are mostly independent now.

I wouldn't even give them moderately left. At least not among the leadership.

One thing that really bothers me is that I have a number of friends whom I have considered to be reasonably intelligent and well educated, but whom I have seen as being moderately left. They all seem to be falling, without questioning, for the Green New Deal and single-payer health care and the rest of the radical left agenda. These are people that I have long thought were reasonably rational and who would do things carefully and thoughtfully, but who seem to be simply following their party wherever it leads. I queried one of them abut this and he said, "I believe in staying with my party and holding their feet to the fire," to which I responded, "But you're not doing much holding of any feet to any fire." That exchange kind of summarizes my thinking.

The moderates have left the party. The moderately left seem to be following their party leadership to the left fringe, like following the pied piper.

It goes right in line with identity politics.

He's a straight, white male.

He is the enemy... regardless of his political leanings.

(06-03-2019 07:21 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 06:56 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

Very few moderates left in the Democratic Party. Moderately left, yes. Moderates, no. Moderates are mostly independent now.

And by and large they will vote for Trump I'd bet.

(06-03-2019 07:42 AM)domer1978 Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 07:21 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 06:56 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Yes! Moderates making sure that the Dems win.

Very few moderates left in the Democratic Party. Moderately left, yes. Moderates, no. Moderates are mostly independent now.

As a former Dem this is the truth. I did not leave the Dem party they left me. I am Blue Dog Democrat, which is now not accepted in the New Dem party.

Welcome. I thought you guys were extinct. I've voted for a blue dog before...