Support Bernie Sanders or prepare for Europe, 1933
The future is now.
And that future is clearly President Sanders.
If the Democratic Party wants to take Congress back this year, it must look beyond past deals, consolations and hurt feelings and not saddle the party with a lackluster, Wall Street establishment candidate like Hillary Clinton.
Even if Clinton can beat Donald Trump or Ted Cruz or John Kasich — or Paul Ryan (and Bernie Sanders polls better against all of them), we will not see enough turnout to effect any real change in Congress. And we will, in effect, become mired again in another four years of deadlocked Obama-ville.
If the Democratic Party wants to amount to anything, it needs to be smart and proactive, wake up and smell the coffee and enthusiastically put Bernie front and center for the future of this country.
They must realize the past neoliberal, third-way days of Al From and the Clintons are history.
The Democratic Party is the 21st century party of FDR.
The option is to allow the now-insane Republicans to represent America’s future.
Get over it. Get ahead of the game. Hillary is a loser. Bernie is the future. Get smart or start over in Europe, 1933.
T.C. Dorsey, Santa Margarita
This story was originally published March 26, 2016 at 10:56 PM with the headline "Support Bernie Sanders or prepare for Europe, 1933."