Can we drop the "Bernie" in "Bernie Busters?"

[rjsquirrel]

78. People are angry

Last edited Sat Jul 30, 2016, 10:46 AM - Edit history (1)

A bunch of spoiled, uncivil, loud mouthed non-democrat campus left brats just distracted and protested and disrupted the nomination of the first progressive woman to a major party ticket. They booed war heroes and civil rights movement heroes. They dominated media coverage of supposed "democrats divided" when they aren't even democrats. They're infiltrators.

They were there for one reason. We "opened the party up" to them, as they claimed to represent "millennials" or "progressives" but obviously were NOT "democrats" in any meaningful sense.

Anyway, like a lot of democrats I believe they actually made the case against Bernie better than Hillary ever did. These "supporters" would have created a mortifying leftist spectacle that would have revolted the general electorate had their candidate won.

What they've done is also to make the opposite case to the leftists' optimistic demand that we "open" the party to such people. I think many on DU (those who haven't left us for Jack-in-the-Box radicals -- I note most of the posts there get 3-5 comments) reflect the view of most rank and file democrats who've been around: what we just saw is even more reason to a) do away with caucuses next time and b) close all of our primaries to all but registered democrats and c) require our candidates and delegates to be members of the party for some period of time - at least a full year. I'd say, before running or being a delegate.

In my own view this is our own tea party. Allowing them to take over or even have a loud voice will end up damaging our party's national standing jus as the far right element wound up sticking the republicans with Donald Trump.

The whacked out Sarandon/West/Free Mumia/Lock Her Up/No More Wars! campus left hippie faction doesn't vote. They don't support democrats and never have. They didn't intend to help build our party, even if Sen. Sanders himself did stand for that. He accepted and relied on support from people who have never been anything but a fringe element and it harmed his standing with the majority of democratic voters.