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In reply to the discussion: And the hits just keep coming.... Bernie Sanders: The Model of the Democratic Party Is Failing [View all]DFW
(55,942 posts)It is hardly failing. Give us our very own nationally available TV channel, constantly blasted from airports and bars, fitness studios and train stations, about five billion dollars worth of black money put into Super-PACS, and give those advantages the time to flip about twenty state legislatures and governorships to gerrymander states to our advantage, and you'll see how successful our model is.
If someone gives your uneducated, under-talented neighbor five billion dollars for the mere reason that he hates all people who are not like him, does THAT make him more successful than you are? No, only wealther, unless wealth is your only measure of success.
If the Republicans got away with all that, and still have to use all their underhanded cheating ways to "win" elections, that's a sign of "victory," not success.
"Ustedes vencerán, porque poseen la fuerza bruta. Pero no convencerán."--Miguel de Unamuno, addressing the Spanish Fascists in 1936. He was protesting the speech of a Fascist general who had just ended a speech crying, "¡Viva la muerte!" He might as well have been one of our supposedly "pro-life" Arkansas Republicans drooling at the mouth to get their executions in before the end of the month.
Wealth, to my eyes, is not synonymous with success, and persistence in the face of adversity is not synonymous with failure.