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201. The thing about the Democratic Party is that , if it has a future, it rests with those
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 09:18 PM
Feb 2016

millions of young people out there who are flocking to support Bernie. The party can either welcome them in and incorporate their energy and enthusiasm or it can wither and die, to be replaced by a new party. It is really that simple.

Militantly leftist, huh? HerbChestnut Feb 2016 #1
It's pretty hard to tell the difference between the Hillarians and ditto heads. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #8
That it is. nt LWolf Feb 2016 #48
Thanks, KennethA. The Atlantic article is an important Hortensis Feb 2016 #116
? LWolf Feb 2016 #132
+1 Go Vols Feb 2016 #159
Bingo. wilsonbooks Feb 2016 #190
It's a marvel what gets projected onto an honest man. Voice for Peace Feb 2016 #137
Dirty Commies. I hate 'em. I hate those damn hippies too. Armstead Feb 2016 #141
you sound like a BS promoter.....lol! did you notice the magazine the article is from The Atlantic Bill USA Feb 2016 #99
Sadly true of a number of her supporters cali Feb 2016 #101
'militantly' isn't a bad word in this context. kennetha Feb 2016 #10
Oh, I'm sure that's just the image the author was trying to conjure. n/t HerbChestnut Feb 2016 #14
And hostile is meant... daleanime Feb 2016 #18
First, congratulations for waking up from that 50-year-long coma. jeff47 Feb 2016 #2
you confuse red-baiting kennetha Feb 2016 #3
Analysis....from 1963. (nt) jeff47 Feb 2016 #7
don't see why you'd say that. kennetha Feb 2016 #17
No it's not very hostile. retrowire Feb 2016 #32
Thanks for that. bvf Feb 2016 #142
Show me on the doll where the big evil socialists took your money (nt) jeff47 Feb 2016 #34
this needs millions of recommends Kalidurga Feb 2016 #172
LOL! Odin2005 Feb 2016 #179
Actually, he's trying to return the Democratic Party back to FDR and Truman era economics, but Fawke Em Feb 2016 #35
Absolutely, Plus the little talked about (Sarcasm thingie) Mbrow Feb 2016 #79
You are correct: more like a shareholders' revolt ... earthside Feb 2016 #138
And YOU confuse a Clinton hack with someone cali Feb 2016 #109
Exactly what we need. The party is a farce. Time to tear down and rebuild. bowens43 Feb 2016 #4
Lots on the left agree kennetha Feb 2016 #21
I agree ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #28
Exactly. tecelote Feb 2016 #25
its a takeback, not a takeover. and its hardly hostile elehhhhna Feb 2016 #31
^^^Truth! nt artislife Feb 2016 #130
What is this, 1950? pangaia Feb 2016 #5
Look! Over there! It's a brand new 1956 Chevy Bel-air convertible! hedda_foil Feb 2016 #131
OMG ! How did you know? pangaia Feb 2016 #152
SOme of my neighbors has a 56 mustang convertible ... light blue and white and perfect. hedda_foil Feb 2016 #202
I'm seriously jealous. pangaia Feb 2016 #204
Ooh... I remember the Sunbeam. One of the cutest cars ever. hedda_foil Feb 2016 #214
CUTE !!!!!!!!!! Wadda ya mean...... CUTE? pangaia Feb 2016 #215
Very cute, very zippy. Here's a '66 Tiger. hedda_foil Feb 2016 #216
Nice. Mine was "british' green.. pangaia Feb 2016 #217
Oh that is an awesome car, my favorite. Kalidurga Feb 2016 #176
IT'S A COUP! cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #6
A chicken coup! HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #13
NO COUP FOR YOU! Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #47
Channelling the Coup Nazi: HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #50
Hillary knows all about coups! Odin2005 Feb 2016 #182
Only misogynistic bernierbos oppose corporate-friendly chicanery in poor third world countries. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #205
Someone's gonna cry fowl if'n you keep it up. cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #65
Or cry for a fowl Art_from_Ark Feb 2016 #120
Birds of a feather. Nt JudyM Feb 2016 #169
It's a COUPE!!! warrprayer Feb 2016 #55
Uh huh. Now you're just Red Baitin'. Didn't think I'd notice the color? cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #71
A Mercury Meteor warrprayer Feb 2016 #87
I want that car so bad, and I don't even drive! Odin2005 Feb 2016 #184
I saw one last week warrprayer Feb 2016 #206
Nah, just taking it back from the Third Way takeover in the 1990s. AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #9
Not so much a 'hostile takeover'.... Databuser Feb 2016 #11
trying to describe it in value neutral terms kennetha Feb 2016 #20
Fantastic description. artislife Feb 2016 #133
Derp derp derpa derp kath Feb 2016 #12
Muffins! TheBlackAdder Feb 2016 #27
Aww. Derpy's always so sweet and adorable. hifiguy Feb 2016 #90
AWESOME!! kcdoug1 Feb 2016 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author CobaltBlue Feb 2016 #44
Speak it! farleftlib Feb 2016 #129
or, my fave version of that expression - "don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya" kath Feb 2016 #191
Nah, it's more like a friendly takeover. nt thereismore Feb 2016 #16
hostile, kennetha Feb 2016 #19
nope... retrowire Feb 2016 #37
lol, another day, another hysterical, raving mad thread from you! closeupready Feb 2016 #22
Do you know how to actually argue? kennetha Feb 2016 #26
ITP, the OP admits they are seeking an argument. retrowire Feb 2016 #39
Ay-ya-yah kennetha Feb 2016 #46
Rather see peaceful revolution... TTUBatfan2008 Feb 2016 #23
It's a rescue mission, Ken. Wilms Feb 2016 #24
^^^ THIS. RiverLover Feb 2016 #66
Sanders political values are those of mainstreet America in the early 1900's. Gregorian Feb 2016 #29
ROFL longship Feb 2016 #30
This OP is bs. grntuscarora Feb 2016 #33
Where are you disagreeing with me? kennetha Feb 2016 #41
Wresting control from an elite group that stole the Party grntuscarora Feb 2016 #51
You bet it's justice. Long overdue. 840high Feb 2016 #211
Good. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #36
Occupy the Democratic Party. Yeah, pretty much. yodermon Feb 2016 #38
What the fuck? This is a stretch too far. Way too far. n/t Avalux Feb 2016 #40
If anything, Bernie is dragging the Democratic party back to its roots. Vinca Feb 2016 #42
Sanders never supported the democratic party kennetha Feb 2016 #49
I guess you would have preferred a third party run which would have guaranteed a Democratic loss. Vinca Feb 2016 #78
This is the problem of not thinking long term artislife Feb 2016 #135
You have it backwards. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #43
Before Bill Clinton kennetha Feb 2016 #54
Jackson also ran as a Democrat because the Democratic Party is the more progressive guillaumeb Feb 2016 #70
This^ HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #61
I know. Poor Guy. bravenak Feb 2016 #45
Corporatists hijacked the Party. Broward Feb 2016 #52
Maybe kennetha Feb 2016 #56
Which is exactly why people love him TTUBatfan2008 Feb 2016 #112
The Reagan enablers need to go as well Mnpaul Feb 2016 #199
Since the Democratic Party has been taken over by the Third Way DINOs - good! djean111 Feb 2016 #53
Long before the Third Way kennetha Feb 2016 #58
Very prescient of him. djean111 Feb 2016 #76
You are damn right he is. Android3.14 Feb 2016 #57
This is just about kennetha Feb 2016 #63
That's a naive or ingenuous wondering...they liked it when he voted with them, and caucused with libdem4life Feb 2016 #91
I thought the DLC's "bloodless coup" was a hostile takeover. LWolf Feb 2016 #59
Yep, the minority the DLC represented in its HOSTILE takeover of OUR party... cascadiance Feb 2016 #69
Not arguing who is right and who is wrong kennetha Feb 2016 #73
But the target isn't "the Democratic Party", but the hostile leadership in charge of it now... cascadiance Feb 2016 #74
That is certainly Sanders bet kennetha Feb 2016 #82
Students in Iowa City, where about half of them are from out of state, where overwhelmingly Sanders cascadiance Feb 2016 #89
The DLC and the Clintons took over the Party several decades ago. stillwaiting Feb 2016 #60
Perhaps they would be more intertested in your BS over on the Freepers side INdemo Feb 2016 #62
You're being incoherent kennetha Feb 2016 #68
You havent had time to do the research I asked you to INdemo Feb 2016 #119
Nah, no interest in talking to you. kennetha Feb 2016 #121
That is the way you Hillary supporters are..When you are challenged INdemo Feb 2016 #136
I went all the way from California to Washington DC kennetha Feb 2016 #140
But your OP appered as something written by a Freeper though INdemo Feb 2016 #207
That's cause you think anything not part of your Sanders echo chamber kennetha Feb 2016 #208
Whatever INdemo Feb 2016 #213
I understood INdem's post just fine. Aerows Feb 2016 #218
Kennetha, did you get lost in your migration between Red State and Freep? You poor, lost birdie. leveymg Feb 2016 #64
Or hillarysupporters.com and jackassradicals.com. demmiblue Feb 2016 #83
Somehow, the screaming eagle on Colbert's old show comes to mind. More Farce than fierce. ;-) leveymg Feb 2016 #111
Actually he is taking it back from the Turd Way crowd that..... yourout Feb 2016 #67
Oh boo! We are the party of FDR and don't you forget it Matariki Feb 2016 #72
you could, but that would be a stretch kennetha Feb 2016 #75
You don't know your history, clearly. Matariki Feb 2016 #80
You don't think the depression and the War kennetha Feb 2016 #85
What does this have to do with the premise of your OP Matariki Feb 2016 #110
The democratic party has no fixed nature. kennetha Feb 2016 #115
If "the democratic party has no fixed nature" how can your OP be remotely tenable? Matariki Feb 2016 #118
Cause Bernie is an outsider kennetha Feb 2016 #124
LOL Matariki Feb 2016 #188
There aren't enough LOLs hifiguy Feb 2016 #77
You betcha! warrprayer Feb 2016 #81
Oh, please, give me a break. Blue_In_AK Feb 2016 #84
Sanders doesn't even call himself a democrat. kennetha Feb 2016 #92
It was more then when FDR spoke publicly AGAINST the economic royalists heavily... cascadiance Feb 2016 #96
I've been alive for a long time, Blue_In_AK Feb 2016 #114
I consider myself a Democratic Socialist and a quasi-Marxist. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #189
Hell yeah! Burn it down! morningfog Feb 2016 #86
Holy crap... You are actually believing this? Where do I begin? MrMickeysMom Feb 2016 #88
Just taking it back from the Corporate Socialists, that's all. Kip Humphrey Feb 2016 #93
Can't see how kennetha Feb 2016 #123
It was taken over in the '80's. mmonk Feb 2016 #94
Jaysus. The amount of far right wing rhetoric from Clinton cali Feb 2016 #95
Paul Starr is another Clinton Fla k. Hilly is deploying her lying toadies. cali Feb 2016 #98
There was already a hostile takeover: By the Third Way, neo-liberals emsimon33 Feb 2016 #97
It only feels hostile to Third Wayers and neocons CoffeeCat Feb 2016 #100
More like a hostage rescue mission if you ask me. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2016 #102
You say that as if it were a bad thing. seaotter Feb 2016 #103
just a thing kennetha Feb 2016 #106
Think of it as a friendly clawback. 99Forever Feb 2016 #104
I do not see guillotines at his rallys. PowerToThePeople Feb 2016 #105
Wrong Wrong Wrong First off Bernie Sanders says he is a Democratic Socialist... fourcents Feb 2016 #107
Cue Twilight Zone theme song. CharlotteVale Feb 2016 #108
Do we need hearings? MuseRider Feb 2016 #113
Bernie's feelings about the DP are nothing secret Mufaddal Feb 2016 #117
Well, I do think it's rather obvious kennetha Feb 2016 #122
The thing I can't figure out is... hootinholler Feb 2016 #125
Hardly - The Hostility Is That Shown By The Establishment - DNC, DLC, Third-Way - And Their Cronies cantbeserious Feb 2016 #126
Is it the word 'hostile' that you are objecting to? kennetha Feb 2016 #127
Not Objecting - Refocusing cantbeserious Feb 2016 #128
You seem absurdly focused on the definition of "hostile". grntuscarora Feb 2016 #134
But Sanders can't "reclaim" kennetha Feb 2016 #145
The ideals and aspirations that were traditionally held by the Dem Party grntuscarora Feb 2016 #194
My, my,my...The hyperbolie and Red Baiting continues Armstead Feb 2016 #139
Red Baiting? kennetha Feb 2016 #146
Man the gates. The Militant Socialists are trying to Destroy the Democratic Party Armstead Feb 2016 #153
Bernie is a life-long Socialist kennetha Feb 2016 #157
Because people like you use the GOP memes to distort what it means Armstead Feb 2016 #162
He's a democratic socialist of European style.. not a communist or a stalinist. kennetha Feb 2016 #165
There is plenty of fodder for intelligent discussion about the nuances but.... Armstead Feb 2016 #167
"hostile" just means "from the outside" here kennetha Feb 2016 #171
You can't walk it back Armstead Feb 2016 #180
We want it all and we want it now Oilwellian Feb 2016 #143
What do we want? EVERYTHING! When do we want it? RIGHT FUCKING MEOW! frylock Feb 2016 #183
more like recover a party that has lost its soul, restorefreedom Feb 2016 #144
That exactly what Bernie workinclasszero Feb 2016 #147
Everything he said about the party was true. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #192
No small cadre of reddit trolls workinclasszero Feb 2016 #196
It's all around you, you're just not paying attention. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #197
John Lewis workinclasszero Feb 2016 #200
Unlike Nader, Sanders is running against the Left's other major candidate Bad Thoughts Feb 2016 #148
Well, you have to ask kennetha Feb 2016 #150
No, I think he represents a strand of Democratic politics that has existed since the 60s Bad Thoughts Feb 2016 #156
But he's never been willing to identify himself as a strand of democrats. kennetha Feb 2016 #161
Run 3rd party, get chastised as a spoiler. Run in the Dem primary, get called an intruder. Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #149
He could have joined the party 30 years ago workinclasszero Feb 2016 #158
"ivory tower" Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #163
Yes Bernie stayed independent so workinclasszero Feb 2016 #170
He never would have survived in the Democratic Party. Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #181
Bernie is the best! The 'party' has shown itself for all to see this time around. ViseGrip Feb 2016 #151
A "hostile takeover" backed by most Dems under the age of 50. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #154
And more of them stage left Feb 2016 #193
Yes. Yes he is. It's way overdue. dchill Feb 2016 #155
If this is a party coup JackInGreen Feb 2016 #160
Yes, that's precisely what he's attempting to do. Beacool Feb 2016 #164
Telling that the Sanders Supporters kennetha Feb 2016 #168
Sanders has always taken pride in being an Independent. Beacool Feb 2016 #174
I don't think it's just expediency kennetha Feb 2016 #175
Yes, but by the same token that I don't think that Trump will be the Republican nominee, Beacool Feb 2016 #212
And Bernie backers say Hillary can't win in the general? workinclasszero Feb 2016 #195
Yep, the ads just write themselves. Beacool Feb 2016 #210
The Democratic Party is whatever the Democratic Primary voters say it is gollygee Feb 2016 #166
A chilling vision of things to come Wig Master Feb 2016 #173
I'm not hostile to his efforts. It's way overdue to make the party leftist rather than Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #177
here. Perogie Feb 2016 #178
I look at it as more of a search and recovery mission. frylock Feb 2016 #185
Bernie is coming in from the outside to rescue the Democratic Party from the Wall St. Devils. Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #186
Good Kalidurga Feb 2016 #187
You mean, like the DLC did back in the late 80s, 90s? JackRiddler Feb 2016 #198
The thing about the Democratic Party is that , if it has a future, it rests with those wilsonbooks Feb 2016 #201
The commies are coming!!!11!1!11!!! Doctor_J Feb 2016 #203
THe Party was sold, out from under us, to the Koch Bros Ferd Berfel Feb 2016 #209
No such thing as a "hostile takeover" of a party. reflection Mar 2016 #219
Sanders is not a Democrat. kennetha Mar 2016 #220
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