Bernie 'will play dirty': Ex-Vermont governor slams Sanders

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22. they were terrified of a 3rd Party run by Sanders if he was blocked from running as a Dem

If you think the friction and animosity are bad now, imagine the argy bargy going down in a 3 way shoot out, especially from millions of Greens/Sanders (or whatever party he chose to run on, if any at all) supporters unleashed from all pretence of caring about us actual Democratic supporters and the Party itself.

It mostly boils down to the constitutional electoral system itself. A lack of proportional representation forces disparate groups to band together under a common umbrella, and at times the tensions are so great it actually can cause a party to implode if it is driven too far in one direction or another, to the point where one side just says fuck it, we will never support this agenda, even if it means the other main Party in the 2 party dichotomy wins a few elections in a row. There is no pressure release valve other than a systemic rupture if the gaps become too large to sustain the overall bond of some semblance of commonality. I think the first signs will be a repeated levels of voter defection by the left, whether it is to scattered 3rd parties or staying home and not voting at all.

That will only serve to worsen the situation, as the party will shift further right to capture the centre right voters to make up for the lost farther left voters. A negative, self-reinforcing feedback loop is thus potentially set up, as there is only so far a party can move left or right (in a captured 2 party system) without really starting to haemorrhage its ends to such a degree it collapses overall. Of course, thsi could also happen to the Rethugs, BUT, in their case, their extreme elements took over the party, and so far their centre-right voters are mostly on board, as they are bought off via the overriding savage economic philosophy that the right wing of the right wing also shares with them.