Democratic Primaries

Police officers laugh at the idea of a 'first offender' --- they believe this may be the first time someone is arrested, but that almost never is it the first time he or she broke the law, and far more often than not they are correct. Police know that people are creatures of habit, and behave consistently, doing again and again what they did before. It is unlikely a man would reach his late seventies without leaving a gaudy trail of such accusations clustered on his reputation, if this was the sort of thing he did. It's not the sort of thing a man does only once, especially a man in a position of some real power.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."