Posted on 03/14/2016 4:48:03 PM PDT by mandaladon
Clinton backers who tout their "realism" need to get real about how she'll handle the shitstorm coming from Trump
There are many nauseating aspects of the new reality TV series, “America Picks a Prez,” which airs around the clock on every single channel on earth: the cynical, open-air conspiracy between our Fourth Estate and Donald “Ratings Viagra” Trump. Ted Cruz uttering the word “prayerfully“ while not exploding into a cloud of synthetic piety. Caucasian patriots heroically exercising their right to punch people of color.
Among these, let me nominate one more: listening to Hillary partisans explain to those of us who support Bernie Sanders just how naive we are. Only Hillary, we are told, has a real shot at winning in November. She’s the only one with a realistic grasp of how Washington works, whose moderate (and modest) policy aims might, realistically, be enacted. It often sounds as if Clinton’s central pitch to voters isn’t that she has a moral vision for the country, but that she owns the franchise on realism.
Bernie, meanwhile, is just a sweet-shouting rube whose quarter-century as a congressman and senator has somehow failed to instill in him an appreciation for the twin plagues of grift and gridlock.
For us benighted hippies, the standard counter-argument at this point is that our man understands all too well the magnitude of Washington’s dysfunction, which is why he’s calling for a political revolution: to obliterate the most heinous aspects of the status quo, starting with corporate-sponsored elections.
I happen to agree with this. But there’s a sadder and more pointed response to Hillary’s reality brigade. Namely, that they need to face the reality of what the 2016 election is going to be like with Hillary at the top of the ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Hippies were way more Libertarians than Statist Socialists....
salon is worried about White people hitting blacks. Oh that is rich
Never heard of the knockout “game”, or “polar bear hunting”, has this one of our highly-informed betters?
fair, in politics... the boy must be smoking crack
No, they were communists.
Hippies were libertarian. But that didn’t last for more than a year or two. By 1970, the lefties had hijacked the Hippie movement. The Little Red Book of chairman Mao’s quotations became ubiquitous, and the personal became the political.
I know. I was in college then.
To be fair, when sufficiently provoked, we tend not to “hit”.
That pic promotes violence. I could punch you for posting it. Oh, wait a minute.
I was in grade school. :-))
Reagan on handling disrupters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXOpm0H7QA
collusion between Trump and the media!!!??
I WISH!!!
and if Bernie gets elected, it’s time to dance.
“Realism” is not a word I would apply to Hillary. Arrogant criminal egomaniac, maybe. Evil, for sure. Apparently the lefties who aren’t party hacks are worried.
I think it’s pretty safe to say he is just stating what everyone already knows and why they are trying so hard to take Trump down.
She does not have the energy to fight him in the GE.
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