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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is nothing but a heckler [View all]Gothmog
(174,014 posts)Sanders campaigned on the concept that he was magical and that there would be a magical voter revolution where millions or billions or trillions (I am still not clear on how many new magical voters were needed) would rise up and proclaimed Sanders to be holy and force the GOP to adopt Sanders proposals. Magical thinking does not work in the real world.
In the real world there was no magical voter revolution. Sanders got the same amount of votes as Dean did in 2004 and Bradley did in 2000.
The premise of the OP is that Sanders was a heckler who yelled at the Democratic Party to tell us that we were advancing the wrong policies. Sanders based these claims of a mythical and magical voter revolution that never materialized in the real world. For sanders to be taken seriously, one had to buy into the concept of magic and magical voter revolutions where billions or trillions of new voters would magically appear. To me that is the same as being a heckler.
The poster above has repeatedly admitted that the premise of the OP is valid. Sanders was advancing policies that could never work in the real world without a magical voter revolution. Heck, Sanders tried and failed to get single payer adopted in Vermont.
I like living in the real world. Magic would be nice but in the real world it takes hard work. That means helping recruit and support candidates like Sri Kulkarni and defending Sri from attacks by Our Revolution types who dislike Asians.