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Home Front: Politix
Bernie Bros warn of ‘massive exodus’ if they can't have their way
2020-03-15
[NYPOST] As the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
continues to crash and burn, the socialist’s most hard-core supporters are vowing they will never vote for Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
at the ballot box ‐ even if that means handing Trump a second term.

"We will never ‐ NEVER boost or support Joe Biden or defend his abysmal record and terrible policy positions," Henry Williams, executive director of The Gravel Institute, told The Post. "We will tell people, as we always have, to vote their conscience and to make decisions based on the interests of all the world’s oppressed people ... I do expect a massive exodus from the Democratic Party."

Williams, along with David Oks and Henry Magowan, are the driving forces behind the brief presidential campaign of Mike Gravel, an 89-year-old former Alaska senator who left the race in August. The trio then became enthusiastic Bernie Bros.

"I don’t know if I could vote for Biden," said a high-profile local Democratic Socialist. "Biden is just an old white guy who inspires nobody. I sincerely think he will lose the electoral and popular vote and I know I won’t be voting for him in New York."

The grumbling from Sanders die-hards is no idle threat. A whopping 12% of them voted for Trump in 2016, according to an analysis by Cooperative Congressional Election Study. That added up to roughly 216,000 voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, exit polls showed. Trump’s combined margin of victory in those states was 77,744.

Posted by:Fred

#14  Run Angela D and Marianne W on a 3rd Party ticket
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-15 19:55  

#13  ^ mostly this but hopefully the RNC has a stealth Green Party promotion plan too.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-03-15 17:52  

#12  Meh. Most of them will fall in line.

It's what Bullshitviks do.

Some percentage will get high and forget to vote, and a sprinkling will vote some non-Biden candidate.

The rest will do what they're told.
Posted by: charger   2020-03-15 13:32  

#11  They were never really part of the Democrats. More of a leach living off them while knowing that if they went under the obvious Socialism banner they'd be crushed.
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-03-15 11:59  

#10  It just means they're fucking morons.
Posted by: Raj   2020-03-15 09:46  

#9  To switch from Sanders to Trump? Entirely clueless as to what this all means.
Posted by: gorb   2020-03-15 09:29  

#8  Communism is obsolete. The teenagers don't read and the electronic media they absorb censors this fact.
Posted by: Grolurt Crailet4805   2020-03-15 09:27  

#7  Huh? A =/=B:

A. "Biden is just an old white guy who inspires nobody"

B. [the above Bernie Bro] along with David Oks and Henry Magowan, are the driving forces behind the brief presidential campaign of Mike Gravel, an 89-year-old former Alaska senator who left the race in August.
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-15 09:21  

#6  Rather the tenor of modern times, isn't it. The whole of the social order must drop everything here and now because some individual or group feels so very strongly and they just HAVE to have their way or they'll hold their breath.
Posted by: Cesare   2020-03-15 09:09  

#5  "Biden is just an old white guy who inspires nobody."

That's the best one sentence summary of Slow Joe yet.
Posted by: Raj   2020-03-15 08:39  

#4  A win-win for the rest of us. Bernie doesn't make it and Bernie Bros leave.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-03-15 08:19  

#3  Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-03-15 06:39  

#2  I know I won’t be voting for him in New York.

But from my mom's condo address in Florida and my stepdad's ski chalet address in Telluride, who knows?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-03-15 04:43  

#1  "Warns" or "promises"?
Keep yer promise, Ilyich.
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-15 00:36  

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