NEWS: Bernie plans to participate in an April DNC debate-sign he isn't planning on dropping out soon

[The Magistrate]

88. Much Thunder, Sir, Much Lightening, Yet No Rain

You have not demonstrated a thing. A reminder that correlation is not causation seems in order. Each event is complex, and you are not close to having demonstrated the single factor you urge had a dominant effect.

I have shown three instances where conventions were actually disrupted by attacks on the 'Democratic Establishment' (two of which you excluded from your set), and that in all three instances defeat followed such vivid displays of disunity. I have also noted another election you ignored, the 1980 election, which featured a strong and bitterly contested challenge to an incumbent, though I also note this was certainly not the sole factor in the defeat. Nonetheless, four conventions marked by faction and disunity produced four defeats. Sanders seems bidding fair to make it a fifth this year, regardless of consequences to the people and our country. He has made it quite clear he continues to run against the 'Democratic Establishment', which he declares the corrupt enemy of the liberal and progressive cause 'Bernie' claims he leads, and claims only 'Bernie' fights for.




"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."