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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251668820The OP:
trumad (39,616 posts)
I'll ask again: How will a Democratic Socialist work with Tea Bag Republicans?
And please ... No more Ponies.
Now this is a big bonfire. Away we go...
stone space (3,495 posts)
3. How does anybody work with Teabaggers?
Your question is a lot more about Teabaggers than it is about Bernie or about socialism.
Good moling here. Throws cold water on the bernibots by asking how bernie can get his agenda passed but phrases it as how can one work with the unreasonable teabaggers.
trumad (39,616 posts)
5. Not really.
He become Prez...he gonna have to work with them to pass his Socialist Agenda.
Riiiight!!!
virtualobserver (4,377 posts)
16. not if his movement sweeps away Republican control of the House and Senate
Socialism!!! We want socialism!!! And the dummies say we are not living in reality.
haikugal (3,867 posts)
33. Socialist agenda?
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Mon Oct 12, 2015, 06:25 PM
Star Member trumad (39,616 posts)
34. He's a Democratic Socialist is he not?
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Star Member haikugal (3,867 posts)
37. Socialist agenda is straight out of baggerland.
What the hell are you talking about? Specifically.
So Bernieboy is not a socialist?
Hortensis (1,453 posts)
20. You tie a piece of enemy meat to a stick and dangle it in front of them
while you poke them from behind with their many fears. The Kochs and the various Citizens United-type groups have it down almost to a science.
madinmaryland (58,452 posts)
4. Uhmmm...
How will ANYONE be able to work with Teabaggers. Even the republican party can't work with them.
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Mon Oct 12, 2015, 07:47 PM
retrowire (1,562 posts)
55. THIS
seriously.
and his movement would have the momentum to wash out that house.
Three stages of dumpism
1. Hopium
2. Denial
3. Hopium
madinmaryland (58,452 posts)
56. What ever you are smoking is going to be legalized in Ohio next month...
Don't forget that Barack Obama had the same momentum going into and after his election and we have seen what happened.
BTW, you can pass one over to me.
Now for the good part...
99th_Monkey (13,992 posts)
7. Like this: He is trustworthy.
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Daily Kos:
Republicans for Bernie Sanders
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/23/1395700/-Republicans-for-Bernie-Sanders
did you know that something like 21% of Republicans in Vermont favor Bernie over virtually any GOP nominee?
No cigar for you .
So Vermont GOP support bernieboy and the rest of the GOP in the US will fall in line?
Vinca (24,833 posts)
9. Bernie was at the top of the heap in a recent Vermont poll of GOP primary candidates.
It is true!!!!
99th_Monkey (13,992 posts)
24. Exactly! Bernie's a straight arrow, and many Republicans respect that
even if he had the current House circus going on, I bet he could get enough
non-teabagger Republicans to work with Dems to get shit done.
At the very least, he could do it WAY more effectively than any Clinton could.
Bernie is clinton!!!!
phantom power (25,039 posts)
11. Exactly, the premise is wrong.
The selling point for Sanders is he won't waste time trying to "work with them."
He gonna wave his magic socialist wand and make the GOP disappear!!!!
cascadiance (18,105 posts)
17. How will Hillary Clinton work with Tea Bag Republicans that don't like TPP & H-1b taking their jobs?
... like the way Donald Trump is working with them, albeit on their side many of them do so with xenophobic feelings...
Bernie could probably work many of those Republicans better than Hillary can, AND for the benefit of American workers!!!!
Hopium!!!!
Hortensis (1,453 posts)
13. I just watched a trashy CNN piece shallowly comparing Bernie and Trump.
No discussion of substance at all, where, of course, they are dramatically different.
BUT, the handful of clips they played did show that both spoke very simple sentences with few words in tones of great conviction. "We need to do this." "We need to stop that."
We know that's been working for Trump on the hard right, and when he's gone his followers will probably switch someone else who speaks with the same absolute conviction without bothering them with ambiguity or nuance and obviating any need to, like, think. When substance is mostly irrelevant, why not Bernie? I say he's got a real shot, especially if he tosses in a few dogwhistles. Heck, just hissing a bit each time he says "Hillary" may do it.
Ross Perot had it too. He turned out to be certifiable, but he was wildly popular while held it together. "If you see a snake, just kill it -- don't appoint a committee on snakes." Now THERE'S a man who could make ISIL go away with one hand tied behind him, and it'd be beuootiful.
Hopium!!!!
Aerows (34,084 posts)
22. It's like asking how can a scientist work with a person
that believes the earth is flat, or how can you convince somebody that we actually made it to the moon that doesn't believe it.
You really can't.
Teabaggers are like three year old kids being told it is time for bed, and their argument is "I don't want to, and you stay up late, so you do it too!"
The only way to deal with that type of behavior is to navigate around it, ignore them and do what has to be done anyway, and to appeal to the American public which is for the most part fed up with tea party lunatics and bigots.
That is the ticket. Just ignore the house and senate and do what you want!! Why? Because...
magical thyme (12,960 posts)
28. how did a socialist muslin born in Kenya work with the teabaggers?
Eventually he got smart and started relying on executive powers, because there is no way to work with teabaggers.
Look at what they did to Boehner, for crying out loud...
Because obozo did it!!!
Turbineguy (20,618 posts)
32. Well, Bernie does have an unfair advantage.
A brain.
**sigh**
Cheese Sandwich (2,992 posts)
46. With a mass movement AKA political revolution
Hopium being replaced by Bernuim!!!!
oldandhappy (4,108 posts)
51. Can any Dem work with the tea folk?
I doubt it.
Not when the dems refuse to compromise.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere (3,521 posts)
53. Wow! Obama did NOT work with these lunatics
Try again
They can come along for the ride but they have to sit in the back. Remember that quote? And the dump says the GOP is the hardliners.
Now for the other side of the dump:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251668605OP:
Uncle Joe (34,356 posts)
Why Bernie Sanders isn't going to be President in two words.
I won't bring any of this thread over but it is worth the read.
The dumpwars are heating up.
