As Krugman says, what happened in Nevada shows it's not just the Berners-it's their leader. He has encouraged them to engage in illusions and wild eyed conspiracy theories.
Even though he has been beaten by landslide margins, he perpetuates the fiction that somehow he is really winning if it weren't for the super delegates-while at the same time arguing that he will flip the SDs to overturn the fact that she has won the primary by over 3 million votes and nearly 300 pledged delegates.
And, yes, it makes me think of Marxism. Remember Stalin's bourgeoisie science and proletarian science?
Bernie uses proletarian math. Both in his budgets and policy platform and in his delegate math.
"Like a lot of people, I was shocked by the statement Bernie Sanders put out about Nevada. No hint of apology for his supporters’ behavior, lots of accusations about a “rigged” process when the issue in Nevada was whether Clinton should get more delegates in a state where she won the vote. And the general implication that the nomination is somehow being stolen when the reality is that Clinton won because a large majority of voters chose to support her."
"But maybe we shouldn’t have been shocked. It has been obvious for quite a while that Sanders — not just his supporters, not even just his surrogates, but the candidate himself — has a problem both in facing reality and in admitting mistakes. The business with claiming that Clinton only won conservative states in the deep South told you that; and even before, there were strong indications that he would not accept defeat gracefully or even rationally."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/questions-of-character/?module=meter-Links&version=meter+at+15&contentCollection=meter-links-click&action=click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=&priority=true&_r=0
Even though he has been beaten by landslide margins, he perpetuates the fiction that somehow he is really winning if it weren't for the super delegates-while at the same time arguing that he will flip the SDs to overturn the fact that she has won the primary by over 3 million votes and nearly 300 pledged delegates.
And, yes, it makes me think of Marxism. Remember Stalin's bourgeoisie science and proletarian science?
Bernie uses proletarian math. Both in his budgets and policy platform and in his delegate math.
"Like a lot of people, I was shocked by the statement Bernie Sanders put out about Nevada. No hint of apology for his supporters’ behavior, lots of accusations about a “rigged” process when the issue in Nevada was whether Clinton should get more delegates in a state where she won the vote. And the general implication that the nomination is somehow being stolen when the reality is that Clinton won because a large majority of voters chose to support her."
"But maybe we shouldn’t have been shocked. It has been obvious for quite a while that Sanders — not just his supporters, not even just his surrogates, but the candidate himself — has a problem both in facing reality and in admitting mistakes. The business with claiming that Clinton only won conservative states in the deep South told you that; and even before, there were strong indications that he would not accept defeat gracefully or even rationally."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/questions-of-character/?module=meter-Links&version=meter+at+15&contentCollection=meter-links-click&action=click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=&priority=true&_r=0
This is why I've never felt that Bernie is in any way Presidential or up for the job. You can't have a POTUS who can't admit that 'mistakes were made.'
Lately Krugman has amended his saying: the truth has a well known Center Left liberal bias.
Yet Bernie always blames someone else-it's the media, or it's the Establishment.
Here's the truth Bernie: maybe we just aren't that into you.
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