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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Plot To Marginalize Bernie Sanders - Salon [View all]AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)136. Can definitely see it on DU
The last few days they have been spamming the GDP forum. Must have gotten marching orders.
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It's been worn out by all the times our TPP-eager president was called socialist. eom
Betty Karlson
Jul 2015
#144
It's just beginning. They would have done the same to E. Warren, had she run--which is probably
TwilightGardener
Jul 2015
#3
Your definition is very narrow and harsh. This one from Dictionary.com is closer to what I learned.
A Simple Game
Jul 2015
#58
Lucky for us then, that Republicans have been hard at work for 40 years changing the meaning
eridani
Jul 2015
#72
I just noticed the number of PPR's from that thread you linked. Including the ever so obvious
Number23
Jul 2015
#123
Could it ever be possible that Merriam Webster Dictionary is skewed? It's not written in stone.
YOHABLO
Jul 2015
#113
And right on point you are. Sen Sanders is obviously not a socialist as H. Clinton's henchperson
rhett o rick
Jul 2015
#138
Democratic socialists are not for govt ownership of the means of production, but the
merrily
Jul 2015
#155
No one has told me that communism and socialism are the same thing, nor did I tell
merrily
Jul 2015
#162
Yeah, we noticed. Does not faze us. We consider the source - these are quite familiar tactics.
djean111
Jul 2015
#7
The Hillarians keep themselves deliberately uninformed. They auto-trash threads with the word
Doctor_J
Jul 2015
#16
some of them believe there are rec squads out there pushing bernie threads to the top
roguevalley
Jul 2015
#23
My apologies-I didn't realize it was happening. I haven't seen anyone gloating about it.
jalan48
Jul 2015
#134
Bernie is only scarry becasue he is helping the GOP: With out Hillary the Dem's are done!
lewebley3
Jul 2015
#43
Sanders sat on in the Senate doing nothing, He has never been on the national stage
lewebley3
Jul 2015
#65
some of them yes. but then there exist the swarm like hornets drawn to the smell of red meat.
2banon
Jul 2015
#101
skinner: "We Hillary supporters need to be better than everyone else."
beam me up scottie
Jul 2015
#85
Oh, some more Hyperbole-R-Us. You don't do your candidate much, if any, good, with
djean111
Jul 2015
#153
So this guy is blaming Clinton for the fact that Sanders calls himself a "socialist".
DanTex
Jul 2015
#10
I guess I missed Clinton's involvement in this. Where exactly in the article does he say that?
2banon
Jul 2015
#12
Me too. I think if Bernie doesn't want to be considered a socialist, he shouldn't say
DanTex
Jul 2015
#13
I edited my previous post you responded to, where I correct myself and added my take on it..
2banon
Jul 2015
#14
Do Bernistas think anyone who is not a full-blown Sanders supporter is a troll?
Nitram
Jul 2015
#150
The analysis is a mixed bag of a certain degree of hyperbole together with on point critique of
2banon
Jul 2015
#26
I don't believe he's a socialist but he adds to the confusion by calling himself one...
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#35
Have you ever lived in one of those counries? How do you know they aren't socialist.
JDPriestly
Jul 2015
#62
. Have you ever lived in one of those counries? How do you know they aren't socialist?
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#69
THat is just what I thought- Social Democrats until several months ago there was either Socialist
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
#130
"Surrendering political power to corporate interests is a form of tyranny, too."
Jack Rabbit
Jul 2015
#53
Had nothing to do with the scream. He was interesting, had good things to say....
George II
Jul 2015
#139
I agree, George, the Bernie "phenomenon" is not very difficult to make sense of.
Nitram
Jul 2015
#151
He aims to be the game changer..going after the status quo which leaves very little in meaningful
Jefferson23
Jul 2015
#76
It's what they did to Smedley Butler, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Clark, or anyone telling the Truth
orpupilofnature57
Jul 2015
#77
Plot to marginalize Bernie? Don't need to have a plot to marginalize Bernie, if he can't sell
Thinkingabout
Jul 2015
#106
Why Anything That The HRC Team Does Is Not A Surprise - Is Not A Surprise
cantbeserious
Jul 2015
#108
"Everyone is scrambling to make sense of the Bernie Sanders phenomenon..."
whereisjustice
Jul 2015
#118
Great article. But we aren't gonna let Faux 'News' and Clinton surrogates marginalize
PatrickforO
Jul 2015
#140