Senator Bernie Sanders: Extended Interview - The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper

[Donkees]

Published on May 31, 2018
Sen. Bernie Sanders talks about the significance of the 2018 midterm elections and Jordan pitches new slogans for the senator's reelection campaign.

[guillaumeb]

1. Another Sanders thread?

Recommended and thank you.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Thanks for the video Donkees

I will have to view this one tomorrow.


Thanks for the video Donkees

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Great vid... thanks Donk. If Bernie decides to run for President after

the 2018 midterms, listening to his vision for a progressive agenda for middle class America, there's no doubt in my mind that he can win the 2020 Democratic primary and ultimately defeat BLOTUS and take us to the "Promised Land."

[YOHABLO]

4. He might be running against Pence

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. True... even better!

[LittleGirl]

6. Pence would have to get

Mother's approval before he could run in 2020.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. The weird thing is, I've read that Mrs. Pence can't stand Trump

And who can blame her??

[LittleGirl]

8. I think you're right

I believe I read that too. Shows you just how sick they are for power.
ick.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. It's too bad that she can't exert some influence

As much as we hear that Pence checks with her on everything.

[Uncle Joe]

9. That would be logical as her hubby

can't be alone with Little Debbie Snack Cakes without the presence of this wife and Trump prefers the Caligula mode of dining.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. What baffles me is how anyone can stand him

I don't think Mrs. Pence's reaction is unusual, especially since she's a woman, and an evangelical. Jimmy Carter has always been baffled why evangelical Christians vote Republican. Trump's attitudes and actions are opposed to everything they supposedly believe.

[Uncle Joe]

12. I believe it's Cognitive dissonance Rhiannon and more common than many people think

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. The occurrence of cognitive dissonance is a consequence of a person performing an action that contradicts personal beliefs, ideals, and values; and also occurs when confronted with new information that contradicts said beliefs, ideals, and values.[1][2]

In A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency in order to mentally function in the real world. A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and so is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance, by making changes to justify the stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance, or by actively avoiding social situations and contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance.[1]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

[Rhiannon12866]

13. That does make sense. And that's something I understand - I was a psych major.

The simple example that I remember is that when groups of people are asked to arrange their faces in either a smile or a frown, the smiling group reports feeling happier.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Yes

[Sunlei]

15. "People suggesting I'm not a young voice for the Democratic Party never end [lol]."

People suggesting I'm not a young voice for the Democratic Party never end [lol].
Bernie Sanders 5/31/2018