{"id":93,"date":"2016-06-23T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2016-06-23T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:48:36","slug":"todays-political-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Today’s political thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you had Bernie Sanders in your Presidential Deadpool, it\u2019s time to head to the pay window. \u00a0He stated today that he does not believe he will be the nominee, he\u2019s laid off over half of his staff and others are taking jobs with Hillary\u2019s campaign. \u00a0Take the L out of LOVER and it\u2019s OVER.<\/p>\n

As proof that none of these have been malicious, I supported Sanders. \u00a0To a point. \u00a0I agreed with his platform, I loved how he ran. \u00a0Up to a point. \u00a0Which I will discuss later.<\/p>\n

Sanders was an unlikely candidate. \u00a0A 74 year old Jewish socialist who has been a strong left leaning voice in Congress, but has little to show as being accomplished there. \u00a0He would have been this year\u2019s Dennis Kucinich except for the fact that the Democrats really didn\u2019t have a solid left candidate (no matter what the media tells you, Clinton has always been a centrist) in a national climate that discourages the left. \u00a0A person on the right who is as extreme as Sanders is on the left is thought of as mainstream, which shows just how far the country has been pulled to the right side of the equation.<\/p>\n

Sanders would have been mainstream in 1976, but now, he is as close as we get to a true Liberal candidate, and he inspired fervor among his followers, but he was never quite mainstream enough. \u00a0He won in low turnout caucuses and smaller states, but no matter what the mainstream narrative is, there is a large, solid group of Democratic Party loyalists, and Hillary has spent 25 years working that base. \u00a0In the end, it was that older party base that put her over the top in California, as well as Black and Latino voters, who will be critical in the fall.<\/p>\n

Sanders also alienated that base by going into Conspiracyland, claiming that the media was out to get him, that the system was rigged and other statements that made your mainstream Democratic Party loyalists sour on him. \u00a0I was turned off after the New York primary when he guaranteed he would win, despite the polls all showing an easy victory for Hillary, then blaming the media and \u201ca corrupt system\u201d for his loss. \u00a0The same thing is now coming forward from his supporters, even though Hillary was a lock according to poll after poll after poll\u2026the only thing the poll didn\u2019t catch is how wide Hillary\u2019s victory would be.<\/p>\n

The number of votes for her vs him is a higher percentage than the 1988 Bush over Dukakis election.<\/p>\n

He also was hurt by years of right wing media telling us how the budget worked and why we can\u2019t have nice things that don\u2019t blow up brown people. \u00a0I personally knew that Sanders was done when my Father (who is a moderate with some left leaning tendencies) told me about how there was no way to pay for Sanders\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

And no matter how many position papers you put out, no matter how workable your plan is, if you can\u2019t convince people your plan works, they aren\u2019t going to vote for you.<\/p>\n

His ideas will be put in the Democratic Platform, and if his supporters don\u2019t pull the \u201cI\u2019ll just stay home\u201d that they claim to do, he can be a Goldwater type figure, where he loses, but his ideas eventually win by his supporters staying and working the party. \u00a0Or, he can be like Dennis Kucinich, giving up after his run and taking the easy media gigs. \u00a0\u00a0I am hoping for the former. <\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you had Bernie Sanders in your Presidential Deadpool, it\u2019s time to head to the pay window. \u00a0He stated today that he does not believe he will be the nominee, he\u2019s laid off over half of his staff and others are taking jobs with Hillary\u2019s campaign. \u00a0Take the L out of LOVER and it\u2019s OVER. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}