GOOD DOGGIE Bernie.
Anyone who believes Bernie is some 'out there' Socialist' sticking his thumb in the Dem party's eye for honest reasons is a fool.
Good old Bernie has always known which side his bread is buttered on in Washington.
He'll do what the DNC tells him to and when the DNC tells him to drop out and throw his support to whoever the candidate is who the DNC calculates has the best chance of winning.
"This is What Happens When We Follow the Democrat Sheepdog. And What Can Happen If We Don't
This is What Happens When We Follow the Democrat Sheepdog. And What Can Happen If We Don t Black Agenda Report
Last month I called Bernie Sanders' Democratic party primary run “sheepdogging” my term for a move the national Democratic party seems to execute every presidential primary season when there's no incumbent White House Democrat. The job of the sheepdog candidate is to herd leftish voters and activists back into the Democratic party one more time by giving perhaps sincere but limited and ineffectual voice to some of their issues.
Of course every sheepdog candidate since Jesse Jackson in '84 and 88 always folds his tent at the end of primary season to support the main corporate stooge Democrat for the November election. The hopeful word is always that the defeated sheepdog remains firmly committed to pushing the Democratic nominee leftward, both on the campaign trail and even more hopefully in the White House. But this never happens either. Losing Democratic nominees Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry adopted none of the positions of their sheepdog primary opponents on peace or climate change or mass transit or housing or racial and economic justice, and Democratic winners Clinton and Obama ignored them in the White House as well.
Even though the sheepdog candidates are never able push their opponents leftward, they appear to do the corporate-run Democratic party a priceless favor. Their doomed campaigns ending in endorsement of the party's nominees serve to firmly attach the leftish brands of the losing sheepdogs to the Democratic party, burnishing its populist, peace and leftish credentials for Democrats."
Anyone who believes Bernie is some 'out there' Socialist' sticking his thumb in the Dem party's eye for honest reasons is a fool.
Good old Bernie has always known which side his bread is buttered on in Washington.
He'll do what the DNC tells him to and when the DNC tells him to drop out and throw his support to whoever the candidate is who the DNC calculates has the best chance of winning.
"This is What Happens When We Follow the Democrat Sheepdog. And What Can Happen If We Don't
This is What Happens When We Follow the Democrat Sheepdog. And What Can Happen If We Don t Black Agenda Report
Last month I called Bernie Sanders' Democratic party primary run “sheepdogging” my term for a move the national Democratic party seems to execute every presidential primary season when there's no incumbent White House Democrat. The job of the sheepdog candidate is to herd leftish voters and activists back into the Democratic party one more time by giving perhaps sincere but limited and ineffectual voice to some of their issues.
Of course every sheepdog candidate since Jesse Jackson in '84 and 88 always folds his tent at the end of primary season to support the main corporate stooge Democrat for the November election. The hopeful word is always that the defeated sheepdog remains firmly committed to pushing the Democratic nominee leftward, both on the campaign trail and even more hopefully in the White House. But this never happens either. Losing Democratic nominees Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry adopted none of the positions of their sheepdog primary opponents on peace or climate change or mass transit or housing or racial and economic justice, and Democratic winners Clinton and Obama ignored them in the White House as well.
Even though the sheepdog candidates are never able push their opponents leftward, they appear to do the corporate-run Democratic party a priceless favor. Their doomed campaigns ending in endorsement of the party's nominees serve to firmly attach the leftish brands of the losing sheepdogs to the Democratic party, burnishing its populist, peace and leftish credentials for Democrats."
