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It is as it is.

Let this "fred" (discussion thread) live under the theme .......

long live this family

brothers, sisters, brethern, dogs, cats and birds, ants and flees, water and air and gas and Clare and Jim and him and the window Simm (??) and you and me and he and she and we and them and us and puss (???) and fish and the dish (it's on) and paper and pen.

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watching the year turn and tending the sound of birds squabbling and singing in the trees, that have come through the dry summer sparser.

fortifying toad and frog spaces against the lurcher and the cold;  summer prunings saved for this.  

Oppenheimer Ranch Project made me laugh today ...    as is often the case, now I have got used to the booms and popping noises.

Meh.  Bernie aint no fraud.  Neither is trump.  They seem pretty much like they were since reading about em back in the day.  Trump was an untalented rich prick and Bern was a change-from-within Jewish schmoozer  guy.  Been in the Guy McPherson school since '09... were fucked.  But I still don't use Facebook or go to Walmart.  

BTW, Bernie is a bigger fraud than Trump.

How so?

Sanders, although he knew by September 2016 that the process was rigged, said nothing to his supporters. He was tacitly complicit in the cover-up. It was left to one of the architects of the fraud, Brazile, to reveal the scam. But by then it was too late.

Sanders’ capitulation in the face of the overwhelming evidence of the rigging of the nomination process was political and moral cowardice. He missed his historical moment, one that should have seen him denounce a corrupt, corporate-dominated party elite and walk away to build a third-party candidacy. Sanders will never recover politically. To see the future, he has only to look at the campaign events he held on behalf of Clinton after her nomination. His crowds dwindled from thousands to a few hundred after he endorsed Clinton. Data collected by Harvard Harris Poll charted the downward spiral of his favorability ratings as he became more and more obsequious to the Democratic Party establishment. His 2020 campaign for the presidency will be a pale reflection of 2016. His “political revolution” slogan has been exposed as another empty public relations gimmick.

Et Tu, Bernie?

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/et-tu-bernie-3/

I think it rather utopian thinking to imagine that Sanders would somehow have spearheaded a viable, competitive Third Party with no more foundations laid than the Green Party - which has never been a serious Party in the U.S. and never will be one until it stops focusing upon the Executive office and, instead, actively attempt at the grassroots level to get Greens in at the City, County and State level.

Even if one accepts the suggestion that Bernie is a fraud, how could he possibly be more of a fraud than Donald Trump, a man whose entire life has been based upon fraudulent behavior to the point that he attempted to defraud his own father who was bankrolling all of his stupid business deals?

I think you missed the point, Paul. Read it again.

I responded to your comment without having read the article. However, as you quoted a sentence from the article, I got at least some of the point. Bernie never said he was going to create a 3rd party, he always said he would support the nominee.  The fact that the author criticizes him for not doing so demonstrates the author's desires, not any sort of 'fraud' from Sanders.  

I read the article. I have read more than a few articles critical of "Our Revolution". All previous ones came from the New Democrat, neo-liberal, "centrist" side of the things. The one you linked is the first from the more Left side.

Yes, the acceptance of corporate monies is disturbing. Yes, there has been disgruntlement and resignations. Yes, many of the candidates Our Revolution have backed didn't win the primaries but OTOH there are moreProgressive candidatescompeting as Democrats than there were before. And even the 'centrists' are now embracing Medicare for All and other issues Bernie pushed and they wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

If Bernie had had any moral backbone at all he would have walked away from the democratic party after they blatantly, and illegally sabotaged his candidacy. Better yet, he should have initiated a suit against the DNC. His capitulation to the dems  was an endorsement of their corruption and an incredible betrayal of his followers. And they know it.

Anyone who still believes change can happen from within the democratic party -- which is nothing but public relations BS -- is living a fantasy. A vote for either mainstream party is a vote for oligarchy. There is no fucking 'lesser evil.' They are one in the same. Better to not vote than to endorse either one.

Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis and others have suggested that 'strategic voting' is sometimes called for. While I understand and appreciate your belief about it, I respectfully disagree. I am hardly a "true blue" supporter but I see a clear difference.

As my wife has oftentimes said, "It can always get worse".

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." Emma Goldman

Based upon the Republican efforts to disenfranchise, they certainly think it could change things.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

"...The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. ..."     

Lord Jason's kill ring:  the Culture of Looting on Powder Mountain.    The Rich Fatties are heading for the Fuhrerbunker.  

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