Markos Moulitsas: Bernie and his supporters want to disenfranchise women and minorities.

[Cali_Democrat]

Markos Moulitsas is the founder of the liberal blog Daily Kos.

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By Markos Moulitsas

Knowing it’s lost electorally, the Bernie Sanders campaign is now pushing for a superdelegate coup, one that would discard the will of the Democratic primary electorate in favor of an unearned coronation. Whether willfully or not, such a strategy is not just an affront to basic democratic principles, it would also serve to disenfranchise the growth demographics powering the modern Democratic Party.

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Just as distressing, consider the big story of this Democratic primary: The party’s growth demographics — Latinos, African-Americans and women — have chosen a woman for the first time. Sanders and his people are arguing that should be thrown by the wayside because white voters prefer a white male candidate. If you ever wondered what “white privilege” was, well, you now have Exhibit A. The arrogance is astonishing, as is the lack of awareness of what he is suggesting.

This is a different Democratic Party than it was the past, and any movement seeking to upend the establishment will need a broad demographic focus from inception. Picking a white guy wasn’t the miscalculation, it was picking one from the whitest state in the union who had done zero work to build necessary coalitions among the party’s core constituencies. He thought income inequality was a transcendent message that cut across race and sex. Reality is far more complex.

Thus, Sanders’s final play this cycle is an attempt to disenfranchise the party’s voters, and in particular, the brown and black alliance that propelled Hillary Clinton to victory. Is that really the legacy he wants to leave behind?

Read more:

http://thehill.com/opinion/markos-moulitsas/281114-moulistas-sanderss-socialist-coup

[Cheese Sandwich]

1. Cheese Sandwich: Markos Moulitsas is a pig

[cui bono]

21. Clearly he hasn't heard Bernie speak. Cuz otherwise you'd have to say he's lying...

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[bravenak]

2. I have been saying this for months

[cui bono]

25. And you've been wrong every time you've said it.

Did you know Bernie got arrested fighting for civil rights in the 60's? Not sure if you've heard that before.

And then there's this:

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[pmorlan1]

54. Yes you have

ad nauseam.

[CrowCityDem]

3. It represents the tone-deafness Bernie has when it comes to anything but economics.

If he can't understand that women and people of color, who make up the WINNING coalition in the Democratic primary, would be rightfully pissed off that the election was stolen from their choice and handed to the person with the majority of white male support, he needs an education in society. No, there isn't conscious racism involved in the decision to throw this garbage out there, but it does show a complete lack of any understanding that there is a different life experience beyond being a white man.

[cui bono]

18. Bernie understands very well what women and PoC are about.

He got arrested in the 60's fighting for civil rights. He has fought for equality his entire adult life. It's only Hillary supporters who try to minimize that and pretend he "does not get it" and that only white males support him. That meme is tired and old, I mean really, it's from the day he announced.

If you really want to know what Bernie thinks about women, since it was women mentioned in the OP title, watch these. And then kindly stop posting things that are not true.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512076298#post14

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[CrowCityDem]

31. He thinks he should be handed what a woman actually WON. He's tone deaf, totally.

[cui bono]

42. What? I don't think you watched the videos.

Here they are again to make it easy for you:

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[CrowCityDem]

45. I don't need videos. He says he deserves something Hillary won.

[cui bono]

44. Oh, and Hillary thinks she should TAKE AWAY what women actually won.

Through a long hard battle:

Hillary Clinton: I Could Compromise on Abortion If It Included Exceptions For Mother's Health

Again, I am where I have been, which is that if there's a way to structure some kind of constitutional restriction that take into account the life of the mother and her health, then I'm open to that. But I have yet to see the Republicans willing to actually do that, and that would be an area, where if they included health, you could see constitutional action.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/29/hillary_clinton_i_could_compromise_on_abortion_if_it_included_exceptions_for_mothers_health.html

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[CrowCityDem]

46. Your issue is with the courts, which have always said restrictions are appropriate.

[cui bono]

53. No, my issue is with a politician willing to compromise a woman's right to control her own body.

Hillary is willing to give that up by compromising with Republicans.

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[CrowCityDem]

58. That's why talking in absolutes is dangerous.

I don't think it's unreasonable to say you can't have an abortion the day before your due date. All rights have some limits on them, even speech.

[forjusticethunders]

38. Whatcha done for me lately?

He made a (very nice) speech after getting challenged by BLM and showed up at a meeting at 2000. Good things. But that isn't "spending your life fighting for equality".

And don't even mention Hillary (who has done a MUCH better job making up for her past shortcomings on race and equality), because a "revolutionary, anti-establishment democratic socialist" if anything needs to SET the curve on these issues, not just be there when it's convenient or easy.

[cui bono]

47. Yeah, and Hillary ignored a BLM activist and kept right on talkng as she was led away,

and also pointed in other BLM activists' faces and told them maybe she should just talk to white people then.

And let's not forget the smear campaign against Bernie's race relations that started on day one. A Rovian "whisper" type smear campaign. Too bad dirty politics works, especially when you have all the corporate media on your side.

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[elleng]

4. Too bad Markos has lost it.

[cui bono]

26. Completely. Or could it be he is just misinformed and hasn't seen these:

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[elleng]

37. I guess it's possible, but in his role I'd say not likely;

more like he's 'lost it' for some reason.

[Autumn]

5. Fuck Marcos.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Powerful retort. nt

[Autumn]

19. Yeah only because he's a powerful POS.

[cui bono]

30. Is it more or less powerful than "but she's winning"?

Oh, did you get a chance to watch these yet? I know you didn't before your "powerful retort" to where I posted them for you.

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[Cali_Democrat]

33. How many times are u gonna post these same videos in this thread?

Bored much?

LOL.

[cui bono]

36. How many times are you going to catapult the propaganda?

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[cui bono]

27. Seriously. He should watch these...

but I'm sure he knows this, he's just catapulting the propaganda.

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[Autumn]

34. Most people are too smart for fall for the Berniebadwithwomen brockshit.

But there are a few exceptions .

[jillan]

6. Oh Markos. Bernie is winning by large numbers with women under 45.

The last president of the naacp is a Bernie surrogate as is activist Harry Belafonte. IF this bs were true Bernie would not be receiving these staunch supporters.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. You do realize that women 45 and over also vote and their votes count just as much?

Overall, Hillary is winning the female vote.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Myself and some other over 45s like him too n/t

[lunamagica]

41. But tou are not in the majority. There are also women under 45 who support Hillary

they are just not in the majority

[cui bono]

32. And many women over 45 love him! Here's why:

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[Demsrule86]

64. It does not matter

He has less delegates...the only way he could win is if the delegates selected him like Bush and it won't happen. Bernie looks really bad even to try it.

[LexVegas]

8. Yep. nt

[nc4bo]

9. More lying sacks of shit then there are recycling facilities, I see. Nft.

[cui bono]

51. Clearly they've never really listened to Bernie or looked into him at all.

They might have heard this if they had:

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[SidDithers]

10. DU rec for the very best reason of all...nt

Sid

[cui bono]

52. Especially when he has fought for equality for all his whole adult life.

I guess they didn't see these videos:

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[Duval]

13. Been noticing his bias for months now.

Too bad. It really used to be one of my "sites to go to" back when the Bush thing was going on.

[cui bono]

14. FAIL. Why can't Hillary fans deal with facts? Why the constant race baiting?

Why do Hillary fans keep exploiting a very serious issue such as racism in an attempt to smear a good man with integrity who has fought for equality for ALL his entire adult life?

Love how you felt you had to say Markos is the founder of a liberal blog. Markos, however is NOT liberal.

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[Cali_Democrat]

17. Hillary is winning the majority of female and minority voters. nt

[cui bono]

20. Not surprised your response has nothing of substance in it.

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[Cali_Democrat]

22. It really is hard for u folks to accept the fact that Hillary has more voters than Bernie. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

16. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHHAAAAAAA

[mmonk]

23. That's where politics reaches the looney zone.

The most liberal and progressive people want that. That dollar bill doesn't only infest your brain, it damned your soul.

[cali]

24. Markos the conservadem piggy is why I left kos- years ago

And he's shedding liberal posters like a maple tree in October.

[workinclasszero]

28. Sanders campaign was always about white

male privilege. They definitely want to wrest control away from PoC and women.

[basselope]

40. Oh yeah, because Clinton has been out in front on those issues.

[cui bono]

57. I think you're confused. We're talking about Bernie Sanders. The guy who said this:

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[XemaSab]

29. Gee, it's not like more information has come out in the 4 months since black voters in the South

had their say.

If you have a problem with Hillary violating national security, it's because you're a racist!

[cherokeeprogressive]

48. Or a misogynist. nt

[Wilms]

35. Time to pout.......

again.

Nice try. But I ain't buying you ice cream.

[ThePhilosopher04]

39. More stupid, idiotic race and gender baiting bullshit. He's gone off the deep end.

[basselope]

43. And he wonders why his traffic has dropped off so dramatically?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailykos.com

Basically... from the day he "called it" and started censoring users, he returned to pre-primary levels of traffic.

[MohRokTah]

49. HE called it MArch 15.

Looking at your chart, it went up after he called it. It dropped off in April after everybody knew Sanders was the loser.

[basselope]

62. Incorrect.

You can compare to other sites (such as DU) where traffic has remained stable or sites like drudge or tyt which have seen steady INCREASES in traffic. In short, there is more traffic is being ANTI-Clinton than following blindly into the abyss.

Further, you have to understand Alexa, which lags behind b/c it uses an average, so a drop starting in April, actually started in Mid march.. when he "called it".

[SidDithers]

50. Hey, has anyone seen these videos?...

Sid

[redstateblues]

55. Good one Sid!

[cui bono]

56. I LOVE those! I'm going to get the director's uncut version when they come out on Blu-Ray.

Here's the links again in case they don't work in your post:

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[Gothmog]

59. Sanders will not be successful in appealing to super delegates

[bravenak]

60. This part

“We can argue about the merits of having superdelegates, but we do have them,” said Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver. “And if their role is just to rubber-stamp the pledged delegate count, then they really aren’t needed, right? So they’re supposed to exercise independent judgment about who they think can lead the party forward to victory.”


That is quite the turnaround from a few months ago, when Sanders and his surrogates were railing against the superdelegate system as an undemocratic affront to the will of the voters. And they’d be right — if, that is, those superdelegates had shown any willingness to subvert the will of the voters, something they didn’t do in 2008 when the insurgent Barack Obama won the nomination and certainly won’t do this year. The nominating process is undeniably in need of reform, but that doesn’t justify Sanders’s hypocrisy in siding with superdelegates over his newly adopted party’s voters.

[Number23]

61. K&R And I'm sure that everyoe is shocked that the folks here that do nothing but shit on and minimiz

minority thought and opinion the most are the ones braying the loudest about this piece. Shocking.

[barrow-wight]

63. It's very disappointing that both when and minorities are expendable to Bernie's campaign.

[Demsrule86]

65. Berie also said the abortion issue

was a distraction...sorry he is not for women...when have you ever heard Bernie Sanders talk about birth control, a woman's right to choose, equal pay? How many high ranking women are on his campaign? Sorry Bernie is not a good candidate for women or people of color...I see no evidence he cares about anything except banks and beating up Hillary.

[barrow-wight]

66. I'm still trying to figure out who he IS for.

[SMC22307]

67. I'm a woman and don't feel disenfranchised.

And that you attempt to pass off Sensible Centrist Kos as liberal is fucking hilarious.