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So, So Good: I'm With Her (Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins) on NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert

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Targetpractice4/05/2018 7:43:23 am PDT

re: #298 HappyWarrior

My problem with Sanders is he wants to associate himself with the Democratic Party during good times but he’ll be the first to trash them in tough times if he thinks it will help him. Yes, he’s a politician but his whole big thing is he’s not supposed to be a typical politician. I’ve been trying to explain like hell to explain to my youngest brother who has a bit of Bernie Bro in him why I think the Democratic Party nominee should in fact be a Democrat and he’s giving me some crap about how I want “elites to run the country” because the two party system pretty much ensures that you have to be a Dem or a Republican and honestly I get that point but I see nothing wrong with wanting a Democrat to well represent the Democratic Party. He’s tough to budge on this though because he hates party politics. Smart and good kid but I think he honestly doesn’t understand why parties exist and need to.

It’s easy to understand: Bernie ran as a Dem because it was the only way he was going to get any facetime in 2016. A Green Party run would have meant competing against Jill Stein, with little national attention the near-guarantee that he’d lose anyway. And running as an independent would have meant no place in any debates, while the media would have tuned him out after the first rally or two. So he ran in the DNC’s primaries for no other reason than it was his best chance at winning a party’s nomination. I don’t doubt for a sec that, had he won against Hillary in 2016, he’d have then pulled his old trick of announcing he’d be running as an “Independent” in November and thus decapitating his only real rival for the Dem vote.