Not enough celebration! Check in here to celebrate. Go Bernie!
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Go Ahead, old man, show us how it's done!
Bernie's grassroots movement is growing daily, and his opponent's astroturf movement is shriveling at the same time.
I was hoping for a 5+ point spread in WI, but this is true BIG MO! None of the polls had this right, either.
Big mistake they're making now ... forgetting NY is Sanders's home state, not Clinton's!
It's ain't a caucus, or an open primary, but the word on the street is Bernie Sanders for President.
GO NEW YORKERS! YOU KNOW YOU LOVE HIM! AND HE DIDN'T START HIS LIFE IN NEW YORK IN CHAPPAQUA!
AND MANY THANKS TO WISCONSIN VOTERS AND ACTIVISTS!
We did it, again!
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Click through. It's worth it.
#Bernmentum 
It's silly but may catch on. Anyway, he has it!!
We got a wonderful 12 pt victory today in Wisconsin, continuing a long string of amazing victories, and yet some feel gloomy. Why?
I felt it myself, earlier today. And when I saw this thread, I thought, 'You're right! Why aren't I celebrating? What's wrong?'
I thought, partly it was the shits posting their shit in LBN and crowding out the victory announcements and a whole lot of other stuff that will favor Sanders (for instance, the vid of his early prophecy of the Panama banking scandal, with Clinton, of course, having voted FOR the "free trade for the rich" agreement that enabled all that tax evasion). And the mean and nasty nature of some of it-- practically accusing Sanders of shooting kindergarteners. Jeez.
There was also that we now EXPECT Sanders to win with 70+% of the vote!. I mean, the previous primaries were mind-blowing. We maybe expected more mind-blowingness this time, but it was 'only' 
a 12% margin!!!
Thirdly: This has been a long, long, long, hard hike up a very high mountain from the beginning. It was never easy. What we had embarked on looked well nigh impossible in, say, January. All I hoped for, at that point, and why I supported Sanders, was to get these vitally important issues into the public discussion.
Then he started winning. A blowout in New Hampshire. And a frigging TIE in Iowa! Holy Toledo, this is REAL! This fervently desired revolution is happening!
But now we have to face the hardest part of all--the next phase, in which Clinton feels her coronation to be truly in jeopardy, and in which the moneyed powers and war profiteers who are counting on her get the heebeejeebies at the thought of a New Deal presidency and double down on the dirtiest campaign we are ever likely to see (and that includes Bush-Rove, who weren't satisfied with outright theft of two elections but threw in some 'swift-boating' for sauce).
The bots here have given us a taste of how bad the next phase is going to be.
We need to acknowledge this--how difficult and nearly impossible this campaign has been from the beginning--how wonderful it has been to see it succeed thus far--and how high that mountain peak still is, that we all must climb. No one is going to hand us a revolution. We have to fight for it. We will have to fight for it every step of the way, AND THEN, we will have to fight for it every day during a Sanders administration, if we succeed at the nearly impossible.
We have much to be grateful for that Bernie Sanders is leading this struggle, and that his wife, Jane, is also deeply engaged in it. What amazing people they are, to do this for us, and to do it so well! And think of what a target they are now, as leaders of a movement to upend the corrupt power structure in Washington DC and across the country! Power of the kind that Sanders and we are challenging will not bow out easily. And its aim is likely to crush "we the people" once and for all.
It is inevitable that we will feel down at times during such an exhilarating event as the re-awakening of American democracy. This has been the case in every peoples movement in modern history. It's never easy. The ups come from glimpses of the goal, as another form of freedom and justice begins to unfold. The downs can be temporarily crushing but, if the goal is good and true, the goal will prevail.
We WILL reform this corrupt political system, believe me. And with a lot of human ingenuity, we will also save our planet. The two go together. The latter is the most serious crisis humanity has ever faced. The former is the most serious crisis that our modern political system has ever faced. We cannot save our planet with a corrupt and unresponsive political system that is controlled by those who think only of profit and their own cushy berths on the 'Titanic.'
And if we can't win the fight to evict them from power this way, we can, we must, and we will find another way. Americans are awakening. Bernie Sanders is showing the way: common cause, each one doing their part. No need for rough language. No need for pitchforks. No need to answer "scorched earth" with "scorched earth." Simple determination to do your own part in concert with others. Keep each other informed. Work together.
...whose titles appear in the public venue and we can't comment. You know something? I'm only dimly aware of the rules at DU, though I joined in 2004. I just write something from my heart and soul on whatever issue is before me. I try to abide by general rules of civil discourse and politeness, and I have no problem doing jury duty based on those premises. But the picky rules about which forum you're in, or what news sources you're not supposed to use, or whatever--I just don't pay any attention to it. I think I've been alerted on only once or twice. I have NEVER alerted on anyone else. I don't "hide" anyone. And I almost always vote to "leave it alone" when some post gets alerted on. The ONLY post I've ever voted to hide was a really nasty racial slur against Obama.
Ergo, I have NO idea if the Bernie forum is exclusive like the Hillary one is. Is it?
I've strayed into the Hillary forum twice now. The first was deliberate, to inform them about Clinton and Honduras (a subject I know quite a lot about) and to suggest that Clinton DO something to stop the murders of activists in Honduras (Berta Caceres had just been murdered). I was sincerely appealing to them to pressure Clinton to do this. I was rudely chased out.
The second was entirely by accident--I saw one of those nasty titles of theirs and wanted to reply. I got rudely chased out again. Didn't realize I was in "their" forum. So I know THEY keep their club tightly closed like a hot house. No air gets in or out. Do we? If someone criticizes Sanders in a genuine way, do they get asked to leave?
I've joined the Bernie forum only recently, though I've been a Bernie supporter all along. I just don't pay much attention to groupings or those kinds of rules. I had something I particularly wanted to say to Bernie supporters first (my "Sea Biscuit" analogy to Bernie). So I joined. But I don't know the rules here.
I don't mind duking it out with opposing views in GD
. It's good to do that. We need to always remember the lurkers. If we don't reply to lies or unfair attacks, some lurkers may end up being disinformed. It just got me down a bit tonight, with a 12% win, and Latest Threads was filled with vile attacks on Sanders. Usually, if it makes sense to reply, I do--unless it's Hillary's forum, and I can't.
Well, I'm rambling and it's late. Am I in the Bernie forum? I don't even know. I WAS thinking today that Bernie supporters need to be elsewhere, away from this poisonous Brockian atmosphere. It really is noxious.
I'll go take a look at jackpineradicals. I'm not at all tempted to abandon DU during this epic fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. But it would be nice, from time to time, to get free of the moronic poison that gets posted here, and just discuss this remarkable Sanders campaign with friends.
Thank you again for your kind remarks and info!
Back to work! New York is feeling the Bern!!
Phone banking. Canvassing. Voter Registrations. Face banking. Tell your friends and neighbors. We are Bernie's Media.
Oh well.. Say Hello to President Trump. WE are not going to give up the nomination if that's what you think. I think this has a lot to do with a woman becoming President.
she has the fire and she is not afraid to speak truth to power
with Bernie Love! 
Our choice is so clear.
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