tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24213446.post183159065451336817..comments2024-03-24T06:12:51.173-05:00Comments on jobsanger: Why Bernie Sanders Could Not Win The November ElectionTed McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15035498835671628943noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24213446.post-4975598238627125142016-05-23T10:39:40.684-05:002016-05-23T10:39:40.684-05:00Thanks for tis list, but you missed what is, to me...Thanks for tis list, but you missed what is, to me, the single biggest piece of baggage -- though others might choose some of the others you listed. (I had heard of some problems with Jane -- who -- and this is pure 'feel,' but something tells me most of his bad advice is coming from her.)<br />'<br />Nut nothing tops his willingness to 'let his name be used' (or that is how he's spinning it) as a Presidential Elector for the <b>SWP</b> in <b>1980</b>. Even from my days marching against Vietnam, the Socialist Workers Party was always a difficult and unliked group, capable r providing a few numbers to the march, but fer Kroo's sake keep them away from any decision-making part of the group, on any part of th limelight.<br />'<br />They've akways been bad, in 1980 they were worse. For those of you who don't remember, the Ayatollahs had seized the Iranian Revolution years before, and were holding a large number of American hostages. Even those Americans who, jusly, hated the Shah had long since considered 'the new boss, same as the old boss' and Pete Townshend was again looking like a prophet as he 'picked up his guitar and played, just like yesterday..."<br />'<br />I dob;t think that there was a single American group that did not hate the Ayatollahs, with their religious based misogyny, their seizure iif a progtessive revolution and turning it into an Islamic one, etc. not to mention peple who kust don't like to see Americans held hostage. Not one group that declared "Solidarity for the Iranian Revolution' after it had become the Ayatollah's -- apparently because anyone attacking Ameerica for anything was 'the enemy of my enemy/' Nit one group exceot the SWP.<br />Prup (aka Jim Benton)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08376467128665482055noreply@blogger.com