If Bernie doesn't take it, be prepared for an election fought on GOP terms....yet again

[Armstead]

This election is a chance for the Democratic Party to make a meaningful change in a better direction.

The GOP will, as usual, be proactive in pushing their awful agenda. Trump, Rubio or whomever they put up is going to be fighting to demonize and kill liberalism, advance the interest of their corporate backers and pander to their wingnut base.

If nominated, Bernie will fight and claw to defend and advance Democratic Liberal principles. He will not back down, and he will push to get the truth through to a large population.

If nominated, Clinton will return to form and ignore the the increasingly deteriorating Big Picture and run yet another tapioca campaign, with tepid convoluted plans to make life maybe slightly a little bit better for people. But she'll continue the pattern of letting Big Money and Big Power off the hook. She's just play the "politics as a team sport" template selling a holding action against the GOP, and nothing more.

[YCHDT]

1. Sanders claimed he wants a "course correction" when asked will he continue Obama's legacy...

... isn't that counter to what most of thet DNC base wants?

[NWCorona]

3. Just wait until Hillary drops Obama like

A hot potato and pivots to the right of him.

[YCHDT]

6. I'm sure there will be somethings she'll go to the right on but for the most part she'll want to...

... continue what he started.

I sounds like the DNC base wants that more than a course correction.

It would be political suicide to distance herself from him at any time

[NWCorona]

7. IMHO it's not that she doesn't want to continue what he started

It's just that she'll pivot to where ever she needs to be and that isn't a good thing.

[hedda_foil]

18. There is no DNC base. There's a liberal base that has traditionally voted Democratic.

The DNC under DWS has handed offices at every level of government to increasingly terrible Republicans by clinging to the corporate funders who dictate the terms of debate.

[Armstead]

4. The real base or the DNC base?

I think the real base wants to continue Obama's legacy and build on it, and give it more oomph to beat back the GOP and accomplish the liberal/progressive side of Obama's agenda.

That does require some corse correction away from the Clinton Corporate Consrvative aspect of the Democratic Party.

I would say at least half of the Clinton voters are doing so without much enthusiasm. They prefer Bernie's agenda and values, but they're worried about the GOP.

[YCHDT]

8. Sanders didnt speak about Clinton nor did the question have anything to do with her..

... so in context Sanders went away from Obama in a statement (not Clinton) but it looks like this is what he's been doing for some time.

Obama is liked in some of the base and beloved in a good portion of the other part... I'm wondering what did Sanders expect?

[Armstead]

9. I think if you sat down with Obama and he was able to speak freely....

I'm pretty sure he'd agree that a course correction was needed. He is honest enough to admit his own mistakes. he has already said it without actually saying it.

[YCHDT]

10. A course correction away from GOP policies not on his legacy which the question was about...

... it was clear.

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sanders--we-must-break-with-obama-biden-549075011848

Couched in some praise is the very clear "course correction" statement

Also, people look at what Sanders has said over the years... not just one sit down about Obama.

At times it seems personal

[Armstead]

11. It is possible to support a president and agree with him on much, but also have disagreements

If that seems personal to you, then nothing I can say to convince you otherwise.

[YCHDT]

12. At the end of the day it looks like Sanders is running counter to the DNC base which is mostly..

... minorities voters.

This seems like a big miscalculation by his staff on where the democratic party is at

[arcane1]

2. Convenient, isn't it, that Dems always let the republicans frame the issues? n/t

[Mufaddal]

5. The best predictor of future behavior

is past behavior.

[zappaman]

13. What else does your crystal ball say?

Can you give me the super lotto winning numbers?
I'll split it with ya!

[Armstead]

16. If I had those kinds of powers we could both join the 1 percent with the winnings

But I'm just doing what we all do here -- spouting off my own opinions and hunches.

[Betty Karlson]

14. No: I refuse to play that game again.

GOP terms are completely flawed, and any Democrat willing to play the game on their terms is a Democrat ready to make me lose. I will therefore not support that Democrat.

[MaggieD]

15. Thanks for the FUD but I'm not worried

[msongs]

17. Clinton/obama 4, all Repubs 0 nt

[Live and Learn]

19. The only plus will be that I won't have to watch any of it if Bernie is not the nominee.

I'll be taking my first vacation away from politics in many years. Might as well take time to enjoy the planet while it still exists while knowing that whoever wins won't do squat to save it.

[Armstead]

20. I've been dealing with that emotional dilemma myself

As a politics junkie, the thought of detaching myself from caring about the outcome is kind of traumatic.

But I really will have a hard time caring if all of the potential dynamism reverts to the same old template of nothing/bad and the alternative of GOP worse.

So I'm preparing myself to try and go through a Politics Apathy Program, because I really won;t give a shit. otehr than to report for duty in November and hope that at least we can plug the dike.