Thread by @dcpetterson

Let's all agree: Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are terrible people.

They had some big ideas. Whether you like those ideas or not, whether you like those guys or not, they're putting their ideas into practice.

Contrast this with Bernie Sanders.

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I've been told Sanders has big ideas. Many people like his big ideas. He's been unable to put any of them into practice.

Don't tell me about how "the establishment" doesn't like his ideas. That didn't bother Musk, Bezos or Branson.

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Again, Musk, Bezos and Branson all suck. We're agreed on that. I'm not defending them. I'm saying the excuses for why Sanders is completely ineffectual don't impress me.

Also, Sanders is as "establishment" as it is possible to be.

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He's been in government for at least 30 years. He's never held a job outside of government. He's a multimillionaire and can get on any news channel any time he wants to.

He's so establishment the Democratic Party let him run in their presidential primaries. Twice.

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The Democratic Party lets Sanders run in their Vermont Senate primaries every single time he's up for reelection--even though he then quits and declares he's an "independent" immediately afterwards.

Without the Democratic Party, he'd be an unemployed grifter.

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Sanders relies on the Democratic establishment for his employment, his livelihood, and his access to media and to Senate committee assignments. He's an establishment apparatchik.

With no accomplishments to his name, because he can't put his big ideas into practice.

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It takes building relationships and building coalitions and accepting compromises to get anything done--in politics, in business, even in personal friendships. Sanders can't get anything done.

Not because he's against the "establishment." He =IS= the establishment.

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He can't get anything done, because "being against the establishment" is his schtick. If he worked to form effective relationships with the people he works with it would put the lie to his whole image.

If he worked with people to accomplish things, he'd be "establishment."

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The reason other Democrats don't like him =isn't= because of his "ideas". (Most of his ideas are stolen from other Democrats anyway. He likes our ideas.)

It's because his schtick is to insult and attack Democrats. And because he's abrasive and can't work with anyone.

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And because he's dishonest. He's as establishment as they come, and he pretends to be a "populist" who opposes the establishment--and others in the Democratic Party (and the overwhelming majority of Democratic voters) see right through that farce.

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Musk, Bezos and Branson put their ideas into practice. Sanders can't--which is why his people hate Musk, Bezos and Branson, and try to ridicule their accomplishments.

The Talibern would rather be led by a con man with no accomplishments.

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I did mention, didn't I, that Musk, Bezos and Branson are terrible people, right? I'm not defending them. I'm pointing out that there are people who can accomplish things, and there are people who can't, and the difference is obvious.

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