Democratic Primaries

Sanders is an 'entryist'. He seeks to take over the machinery of an existing party, and set it to making copies of himself, as candidates and, he hopes, voters. A group called 'Militant Tendency' did this to the Labour Party in England, back when 'Bernie' was still knocking about in his radical salad days. It kept Tories in charge for a good many years. With Corbyn recently, something similar has befallen Labour, with what looks like an identical result. People like Corbyn and Sanders simply repel a goodly portion of any national electorate, including many people who wold otherwise oppose the excesses of conservative radicals, and are in fact open to many left and progressive policies.





"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."