If you want a better future then vote for Trump.

The numbers are mostly in this morning and Sanders would need to win 76% of the remaining delegates to get the nomination - all in proportional states. NBC likens that to being down by four touchdowns midway through the 3rd quarter. Seems more like in the fourth quarter to me. Sanders clearly IS NOT going to be the nominee. He's hurting the party by staying in.

I hope at least that Sanders stops attacking Hillary and turns all his guns on Trump if he insists on staying with his sinking ship. After last night, Trump is almost certainly going to be the Republican nominee regardless of Democratic attacks on him.

(March 16, 2016 at 9:47 am)KUSA Wrote:

(March 16, 2016 at 9:40 am)Mathilda Wrote: Never understood why Americans refer to their president is leader of the free world.

However, what it means to you is that your county and leader are second rate and will submit to the will of the US leader.

You mean like how Britain didn't help out the US in the Vietnam war despite being asked to?

But if what you're saying were true then we wouldn't free would we.

Kusa talking about America being great again is typical example of the fascist ideal. One of the hall marks of fascism is the idea that your own nation is greater than all others and this gives you the justification for forcibly imposing your will on other nations, often through the use of violence. Take for example forcing Mexico to pay for the wall that Trump claims that he will build, or that other countries are second rate and will submit to the will of the US leader.

Claiming that the president is 'leader of the free world' is also contradictory with Trump's core message to make America great again. The president can't be the leader of the rest of the world but also subject to the will of other countries. Basically this is the fascist ideal that the native inhabitants of their own country are superior to those from other countries and that their rightful place in nature is to lead all others.  Hence the focus on immigration and race, (e.g. Obama's birth certificate, illegal immigration etc).

It is comparable to the religious thinking that their own particular god is the correct one out of the thousands that exist. Many countries at one time or another thought that they were superior to all other countries. The US is a late-comer to the fascist club.

Carl Bernstein: Trump Is Birthing a New ‘American Fascism’

Quote:Bernstein wants cable news to start having serious conversations about Trump’s fascist tendencies and how he fits into the bigger picture of fascist leaders throughout history.

He made it clear he’s never said this about any other living American politician, but Trump really is just that disturbing.

(March 16, 2016 at 9:40 am)Mathilda Wrote: Never understood why Americans refer to their president is leader of the free world.

In the free world people have a choice about who their leaders are. No one outside America has a choice about who the American president is and nor does (s)he decide on any laws outside of the US. All they can do is say what they would like to see happen in the outside world and be ignored by everyone whilst doing so.

I agree. The term leader of the free world is insulting to me. This is American exceptionalalism at work again. This is the country that renamed French Fries 'Freedom Fries' because France wasn't willing to be a puppet and go into Iraq in 2003. Also, the 2000 was stolen so leader of the free world I'd say not.

Sanders needs to get out of the way so Democrats can unite to stop the rolling train wreck which is Donald Drumpf.

(March 16, 2016 at 11:57 am)Minimalist Wrote: Sanders needs to get out of the way so Democrats can unite to stop the rolling train wreck which is Donald Drumpf.

I could say the same thing about Hillary.

(March 16, 2016 at 11:57 am)Minimalist Wrote: Sanders needs to get out of the way so Democrats can unite to stop the rolling train wreck which is Donald Drumpf.

A lot of democrats are switching over to Trump.

More talking points from your fuhrer?