Deus X wrote:
Oh, this is just fuckin' dumb! Do you think FDR had a "realistic, workable plan" to implement the New Deal? NO!
He had a hell of a lot more of a workable plan than "millions of young people will march on Washington and demand it." That's not a plan, that's a bullshit hippie wish. It's right up there with "we'll chant until we levitate the capitol." It's hogwash.
He just knew what needed to get done is all. We wouldn't have Social Security or Unemployment insurance or the FDIC or any of the other reforms and social programs he implemented if he'd of had to articulate a "workable plan" in '32.
And he kept getting re-elected because he tried a bunch of shit and finally made some of it work despite strident Republican opposition. He set out goals and then filled his administration with like-minded people, all working towards the same social justice end. A lot of his stuff failed but enough of it worked that today we have a better, more equitable society.
He had more plans than fucking Bernie.
Anybody has more plans than that Castro-cocksucker. Every time Bernie talks all I hear is a stoner friend of mine rattling on about his plans for starting a new business, which he assures me
can't miss because he'll have pinball machines there and the kids, they love pinball. It's a load of silly crap, and it'll disillusion kids fast when they go all-in for Bernie and he doesn't deliver jack squat. Bernie is 100% personality cult.
Somebody needs to articulate a REAL Democratic vision to move the party away from the Clinton Crime Family's Republican-Lite bullshit. Bernie's not going to get the nomination and couldn't get elected if he did but at least he's talking the right talk.
That's the problem, right there. He
might get the nomination if enough squishy-minded idiots who think "he doesn't need a real plan, just the right talk" (and infer whatever you like from that
) rah-rah his ass to the nomination. And then, yeah, he
won't get elected, because he is un-fucking-electable, no matter how much the people who do like him get weepy at the thought of him charming the little birdies or whatever. The dude's 80, he's a socialist to the point of having film on him praising Castro and Communists in Russia, he's an atheist (which is great by me, but I know what country I'm living in and we're right below "socialist" on the scale of things-people-won't-elect ( https://news.gallup.com/poll/183713/socialist-presidential-candidates-least-appealing.aspx ). Now, I know and you know that "socialism" of the type a few Democrats are pushing for is far removed from real hardcore socialism, but the American public are, for the most part, an easily-spooked herd of idiots, and they're gonna believe it's the worst thing ever and won't be pried away from that.
Bernie is already doing what he did last time -- giving Republicans their perfect Commie-lite boogieman, while dividing the Democrats and firing up his cultists where they're not going to settle for any other candidate except their stupid fucking messy-haired finger-wagging I-know-how-to-say-three-things-over-and-over "messiah." If he'd stayed his goddamned one-note ass out of it, we'd have stood a much better chance... but the vain sonofabitch has never mattered in his life until last year, where people made the mistake of giving him attention. Now he's going to fracture a party --
again -- that he'll never even claim to be part of until it serves his purposes to do so.
Honestly, if he won't bow out on his own, then I hope he has a fucking stroke, because that's about the only way he's not going to fuck this up again. He got us Trump once already (and
yes he fucking did, because without his whiny-bitch-ass letting his cult think he got "cheated" by not earning as many votes, more people would have showed up to vote for Clinton -- without Bernie we would have coasted in easy) and now he's well on his way to handing the bastard a second term. He's doing nobody any favors except Trump.
Anyway, yeah, keep trying to sell me that rattling asshole. I just hate him more every time I gotta discuss him with one of his apologists.