tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post2318618665843448616..comments2024-03-29T05:11:44.999-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: Six Delegates of SeparationVixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-59126109842550720562016-05-04T12:15:01.599-04:002016-05-04T12:15:01.599-04:00Yeah - the Sanders supporters started out hopeful,...Yeah - the Sanders supporters started out hopeful, but very quickly devolved into delusional anger. The basis of the campaign was a bunch of things that were politically impossible, a 'revolution' that very clearly was never going to happen, and a huge amount of ginned-up hatred for Hillary Clinton. It made for a disastrously poor campaign - hey, Bashir al-Assad is a horrible human being, but that doesn't tell me ANYTHING about why I should vote FOR Bernie Sanders.<br /><br />So they close the overwhelming delegate gap by SIX - and pound their chests and promise 'the greatest political upset of all time'. It's pathetic, but no more than the sudden switch from 'Superdelegates are completely antithetical to democracy' to 'we're going to convince the superdelegates to overturn the democratic will of the voters'. <br /><br />Pundits are asking if the Sanders 'movement' can be sustained after Ms. Clinton receives the nomination. The answer is obviously no - it was never a movement, it was a tea party - like reaction from the left to a system and a voter population that is suspicious of a high-tax high-service model of government and is not likely to implement 'Denmark' in the US in our lifetimes...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com