{"id":21889,"date":"2016-05-16T14:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21889"},"modified":"2016-05-16T14:02:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:02:26","slug":"bernie-or-bust-means-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/bernie-or-bust-means-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie or Bust Means Busted!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may tell me that I sound like a broken record, but this message is so important, that I’ll be hammering on it until I see plausible evidence that it has sunk-in.  Nobody wants Bernie to win more than I do, but the more time passes, the more that looks like pie in the sky.  "Bernie or Bust" people say that they don’t have to be loyal to The Democratic Party.  I agree. but loyalty is not the reason that voting Blue is imperative.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Trump-Bird\"…<\/p>\n

Michael Moore loudly endorsed Bernie on the eve of Iowa caucuses and continues to have plenty of differences with Hillary. But when it comes to the general election, it’s a no-brainer<\/strong><\/a><\/font><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Michael Moore is an avowed Bernie Sanders supporter and has been for years. But while the outspoken filmmaker and liberal activist says he\u2019s with Sanders till the end, he quickly notes he\u2019ll support former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if she\u2019s the nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh absolutely. She\u2019s better than the alternative and she will do some good,"<\/strong><\/span>Moore said in an interview on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Then there’s this philosophical giant<\/strong><\/a><\/font><\/span> who uses the same a-word when it comes to his support in November:<\/p>\n

Noam Chomsky would \u201cabsolutely\u201d<\/strong><\/span> choose Hillary Clinton over the Republican nominee if he lived in a swing state, but her primary challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, \u201cdoesn\u2019t have much of a chance," the MIT professor and intellectual said in a recent interview…<\/p>\n

\u201cOh absolutely\u2026my vote would be against the Republican candidate,\u201d <\/strong><\/span>Chomsky told Al Jazeera English\u2019s Mehdi Hasan…<\/p>\n

Chomsky cited \u201cenormous differences\u201d<\/strong><\/span> between the two major political parties.\u201cEvery Republican candidate is either a climate change denier or a skeptic who says we can\u2019t do it,\u201d <\/strong><\/span>Chomsky said. \u201cWhat they are saying is, \u2018Let\u2019s destroy the world.\u2019 Is that worth voting against? Yeah.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Maher has also repeatedly made clear that he supports Sanders for the nomination, but he can see the writing on the wall and used a different a-word<\/strong><\/a><\/font><\/span> regarding the choice in November.<\/p>\n

Last week on Real Time with Bill Maher<\/em><\/span>, the brazenly liberal host tore into Sanders supporters who claim they\u2019d rather vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton. After outlining key differences between a Trump and Clinton presidency, Maher proclaimed,\u201cThat\u2019s your choice. Don\u2019t be assholes about it.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n

These are just three examples, but there’s plenty more where that came from and much more on the way shortly. All you have to do is listen.<\/p>\n

Bernie or bust? Are you sure about that? Because what it really means is that you’re fine with our entire country going "bust" in every way imaginable (economically, morally, judicially…you name it) for many years to come under the disastrous rule of *shudder* President Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

If you care about what Bernie Sanders has stood for his whole life and what he continues to fight for to this day, "bust" is simply not an option… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Like I said, loyalty is not the reason that voting Blue is imperative.  Saving your way of life, the nation and the planet is the reason.  Bernie said that, if he did not win the nomination, he would do everything he could to keep a Republican out of the White House.  Bernie said the on her worst day, Hillary is infinitely better than any Republican.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Sadly, some Bernie or bust folks are actually saying Trump is no worse than Hillary.  I even saw one comment that maybe Hillary and Rump Dump are in collusion.  We are disrespectful to Bernie, if we spout wild conspiracy theories, with zero supporting evidence.  That’s what Republicans do.  Lets not imitate them.<\/font><\/p>\n

Listen to me!  Listen to Michael Moore!  Listen to Noam Chomsky! Listen to Bill Maher!  And most of all, listen to Bernie!!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Vote Blue No Matter Who!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may tell me that I sound like a broken record, but this message is so important, that I’ll be hammering on it until I see plausible evidence that it has sunk-in.  Nobody wants Bernie to win more than I do, but the more time passes, the more that looks like pie in the sky.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}