Bernie just plain F'd up.

[The Magistrate]

25. New England Is An Odd Duck, Sir

In my youth, it was perhaps the most reliably Republican portion of the country 'rock-ribbed Republican' was the phrase. However, the Republicans elected there tended towards the liberal side of the spectrum, and at that time there were genuine liberals elected as Republicans. The egregious Ms. Collins is about the last waning ghost of that, but it has not yet completely disappeared --- note the frequency of a Republican governor in Massachusetts, generally someone who might pass for a 'blue dog' Democrat in a pinch. The region does not like the Baptist bible-beaters and Southron types at all, but is still a bit shy of owning up to full alignment with the Democratic Party. Grampa would be spinning in his rock-ribbed Republican grave. So you get these local independents who mostly do act as a Democrat might, but will not take the name. Sanders began with something called the 'Liberty Party' (or something similar, I would have to check) which was a sort macedoine of personal and sexual libertarianism and Marxist economics and opposition to Cold War imperialism prosecuted by the Establishment in the United States, without which all would be heaven. The various spoons-full of sugar helped the various medicines go down, at least on a local level, eventually. And so here we are....



"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."