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kleinbl00  ·  2929 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Bernie Sanders Already Won

I think it looks like this.

I think it looks like this.

I think it looks like this.

I think it looks like this.

I think in the modern American political system, it looks like someone spoiling over sour grapes and the aftermath being a coalescing of that 3rd party's values in one or the other party.

If we're taking bets, my bet is that the Republicans run Bloomberg in 2020, despite the fact that he doesn't speak dog-whistle. This will upset what's left of the open-carry get-a-job-morans tea party brownshirts, who might just turn Trump into their Lyndon LaRouche.

This is why we were extraordinarily lucky that Bernie Sanders ran on the Democratic ticket to shape the mainstream narrative, rather than running on a 3rd party ticket to draw voters away from the democratic ticket. I'd love to live in a non-2-party system, but I don't think we'll get there by fracturing. Yet every party needs to try it on for size about every twelve years. We're well overdue.





user-inactivated  ·  2928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Man. Imagine if Clinton and Cruz got their respective party's nominations, then as a big middle finger to everyone Sanders and Trump ran as independents. It'd be a four way free for all rage in the cage pay-per-view election special.

goobster  ·  2928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I actually, truly, laughed out loud at this!

Heck... maybe it's what we need to get more than 23% of Americans to vote...

user-inactivated  ·  2928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Man, if you thought the results of Bush/Gore was contentious, imagine when all four of those guys file simultaneous lawsuits to become president.

kleinbl00  ·  2926 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...with only eight justices on the Supreme Court.

Fuckin' Paul Ryan would end up president.