Bern It Down!

Back on Tuesday, I mentioned the incident with the Bernie Sanders supporters at the Nevada Democratic Party state convention. The Media seems to have gone overboard on it since then.

Talking Points Memo rounded up exactly what happened at the convention (a fine piece of journalism, by the way). In summary, the Sanders folks did what typical revolutionaries do: If the process doesn't deliver the results you want, attack the process. Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucus earlier this year, so naturally the Sanders people had to be disruptive.

The Democratic Party's Media responses (if you think the Dems don't dominate the Media, you really need to cut back on your crack intake) have ranged from a reasonably well written editorial by Ed Kilgore in New York Magazine titled, "Sanders Needs to Talk Down His Supporters and Explain That Nothing Is Being ‘Stolen’", to a more moonbatty editorial by Kurt Eichenwald in Newsweek titled, "GET CONTROL, SENATOR SANDERS, OR GET OUT".

From all the analysis I have read, here are the main takeaways:

1. Bernie himself is supporting his supporters' hooligan antics. His responses have been tepid, at best.
2. There will be disruptions at the Democratic Party's Philadelphia convention. If he won't tamp it down at the Nevada state convention, do you think he will calm things down for the Philly national? No chance.
3. Bernie's supporters are a bunch of entitled brats. The "spoiled brattery" of Bernie's supporters was on display in Vegas, and they won't slow down in Philly, especially with Bernie's operatives stoking them.

When you consider that Sanders is 74 years old, he doesn't have any chances left, so he is swinging for the fences. I don't expect Philadelphia to be the end of it. Don't be surprised if we see an American "October Revolution" from Bernie and his supporters. He is a self-proclaimed socialist after all.