538 polls devastating for Sanders Today's numbers and chance of winning the nomination is 0...

[Demsrule86]

[DemKittyNC]

1. I'll be so glad

When we don’t have to talk about Sanders anymore.

[Demsrule86]

6. I am completely sick of Sanders...he needs to go away and maybe do his job in the Senate...no excuse

now for him not to.

[Aquaria]

26. What job?

My cat could do what he does there. And she’s the laziest cat ever born.

[Demsrule86]

27. My cat is very intelligent and might be able to handle the job...she is not lazy...haha

Seriously, you are right.

[dawg day]

2. Why is "no one" an option?

I hope there's not even a 1/100 chance that the election will be canceled. Then again, Trump could decide to outlaw the Democratic party, taking his cue from Putin.

[honest.abe]

3. "No one" means nobody gets a majority.

Which is unlikely now.

[33taw]

4. I think this options was put out there in the event of a brokered convention.

[Demsrule86]

5. It always is an option but almost zero...just like Sander's chances.

[karynnj]

10. No one meant that many nominees would share the delegates with no one above 50 %

At one point, that was likely.

[Hortensis]

9. You forget, he's a revolutionary leader. If he can't lead

a revolution against our own party from within, he can still attack it from within. As we saw not just in 2016, but ever since. This is a continuation, as is Russia's assistance.

Btw, anyone remember summer of 2016, when we were in battle with Repub-Russia for the future of our nation? Sanders had lost but used his presidential candidate pulpit to claim the Democratic Party was soooo corrupt that it needed to halt the national campaigns and instead focus inward to root out everything wrong with us and rebuild our party. We were the big national emergency that had to be addressed before anything good could be accomplished.

Whatever this man's agenda was and is, it is not about keeping Trump out of the presidency and saving progressive liberal government from those determined to destroy it.

[Demsrule86]

11. I remember and the last week of the general...he was saying shit about Hillary and the party.

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I never got over this and never will...I am so happy Joe is the nominee and I won't be forced to vote for Sanders...and he needs to consider that there really isn't any revolution and never was.

[Vivienne235729]

40. Yes! I remember quite well how long it took him to grudgingly pivot to Hillary.

He lost me then. I actually voted for him in the primaries and was shocked to see such petulant behavior from a man in his position. That was 2016. I have been warning everyone within a 50mi radius of me ever since that he is the worst snake oil salesman.

[dalton99a]

15. It is noteworthy that Sanders and Bros. attack Democrats far more often than Republicans.

They view the Democratic Party - which they seek to represent - as their mortal enemy

And they rarely say anything negative about Russia.

[Hortensis]

17. It seems to be a manifestation of "self hate." Wish I

knew a better term. I don't like that one, but "one way low self esteem can manifest" doesn't quite get the idea across.

But the flip summary of a basic difference between RW and LW radicals/extremists by an expert in political extremism does: That RWers hate everyone else, while LWers hate themselves.

As you're noting, we see this being acted out all the time.

[Demsrule86]

19. It shows who they are and who they really support.

Think about the left...let's start in 2000...Nader and the left mercilessly attacked Gore...Sarandon was a busy bee (piece of crap) and Bush won...we get United (which the left caused and still has the nerve to complain),two wars, 9-11, Katrina and economic debacle...the GOP also gets judges who are going to overturn Roe I think. Next up Kerry who is beaten up in the primary and abandoned by the left...Michael Moore going around begging for folks to vote for Kerry after he savaged him in the primary...and then 2016 where Stein took enough votes to elect Hillary in the blue wall states and we get Trump, terrible judges, babies in cages...list is too long and now millions are likely to die...so I am sick of the left/Greens who don't vote for us and enable bastards like Trump ...they helped him win just as much as Republicans did .

[LiberalFighter]

22. Who else was a revolutionary leader?

[Demsrule86]

24. This is the Democratic Party...revolutionary leaders who help Republicans need to go away and soon.

[brush]

31. Apparently he wants a showdown desperately. It's what he does. He'll tr...

to take this all the way to the convention.

[awesomerwb1]

8. Well the point now is not to try to win

It's to try to blow up the "establishment". Look at the latest threads/posts from one of BS's more active supporters on DU. "All the way to the convention!" he wrote.

[Demsrule86]

13. I don't know how we deal with this sort of thing...honestly...his favorability is in the trash...

just have to hope we do it in spite of them...and never allow anyone but a Democrat to run as a Democrat again...and that includes Sanders in Vermont...he can run as an independent next time.

[Hortensis]

18. Sanders is better known now. That's not good for him,

and hopefully over time his acting out will continue to enlighten voters.

[Demsrule86]

20. Maybe by the end, he will not have enough voters with him to harm our chances in November.

[Hortensis]

25. Well, Dems drawn to his official messages will vote Dem in the GE.

We know that. Regardless of how he behaves or misbehaves.

And now millions of additional voters are moving to or returning Democrat to stop what's happening on the right. The kind who used to vote with us to keep extremism in check, before our national electorate was divided and conquered.

As for the small, dysfunctional fringe addicted to opposition to the Democratic Party, who flare eagerly with every lie and fake grievance thrown to them? The ones who cheered the attempt to illicitly steal the 2016 nomination and who promised this year to repeat 2016 in the GE? They love what they see of themselves in their leader.

Oh, well. Btw, the probability that our convention won't be a physical gathering they can act out at before dissipating has to be making some very unhappy.

[LiberalFighter]

23. Much better known then he was in 2016.

There is a time to get over it. For him it should had been after the 2016 primary was over.

[dalton99a]

16. +1. Sirota sent out a tweetstorm full of lies about Hillary on the eve of the election

The "movement" is not about democracy, or decency, or common sense

[Demsrule86]

21. Sirota can fuck off...I hate that guy.

[treestar]

12. The debate is going to turn this around!

[Demsrule86]

14. Yeah because debates matter so so much...ha

[duforsure]

28. Bernie's finished

And if he won't give it up really soon, he'll never get elected again. He's hurting the party acting like he is now.

[Demsrule86]

30. He is finished. And too bad to go out on this note...he has had a long career and all.

[Lanius]

29. Sanders knows he can't win now.

This is all about feeding his ego, attempting to embarrass Biden and burning down the Democratic Party.

[Cha]

32. Go Joe Biden!

[Gothmog]

33. LOL sanders staying in the primary fight will only hurt him down the road

sanders not dropping out may help Biden. sanders keeps on losing primaries by large margins nnly strenghten's Joe's position https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/11/no-surprise-bernie-sanders-is-still-all-about-himself-never-party/

Sanders’s remaining in the race should serve several salutary purposes for the party and the country. First, seeing him lose overwhelmingly week after week will dispel the notion that the Democratic Party has moved left, or that he is in a dominant position to negotiate with the overwhelming winner. It’s not clear why the Biden camp should “give” Sanders anything.

Second, it is good to keep Biden in fighting form, continuing to boost turnout and showing, as he did in Philadelphia, how presidential he is. Biden can pivot to the general election, essentially ignoring Sanders. (His planned speech on the coronavirus is the perfect opportunity to leave Sanders out of the discussion entirely.)....

Whoever is to replace Sanders as the standard-bearer for the left — hopefully someone as smart and wonky as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — will need to learn how to win elections. (Hint: It is not by scaring voters or attaching oneself to the socialist label.) When in office, a new generation of leaders on the left will need to learn the art of deal-making rather than waste years, as Sanders has, rabble-rousing but accomplishing nothing. Unlike Sanders, Warren (or whoever else takes the reins) will not be burdened by a record of reflexively praising dictators nor be driven to attack fellow Democrats.

Sanders will end the race at some point, a diminished figure. In retrospect, his wins in 2016 will be seen more as an anti-Hillary Clinton vote than a pro-Sanders vote. How he behaves at Sunday’s debate will determine whether he leaves a bad taste in the mouths of Democrats.

[Demsrule86]

38. Those are very good points and I think you are correct. I do fear Sanders attacking Biden

on the left and Trump on the right...but we can't make him get out

[Gothmog]

39. How do you demand concessions when you're getting the brake beat off of you?

Link to tweet

[ecstatic]

34. I wonder if Bernie still believes that the person with the most votes

should automatically win the primaries.

[Demsrule86]

37. He said so a few days ago.

[honest.abe]

35. Sanders is now at 0%. Same as Gabbard.

What a pair of losers!

[Demsrule86]

36. Pretty shocking...and Sander is still thinking he has some sort of leverage.