Oh No, The New Awesome Primary Thread

On the contrary, I don't see why the two wouldn't be analogous. That's what I was asking. So your answer is "yes", not "no". I would think that the word "socialist" alone would be enough to cause a backlash.

I asked a question and you answered "no". The onus is on you to provide backing for your answer.

It makes no diference whether the US "is" socialist or not. The point is that the word "socialist" is enough to get some people almost in a lynching mood. To those people, a candidate self-identifying as "socialist" - whether he really "is" socialist or not - is almost certain to drive some people to vote for anybody but him, isn't it?I may not have any "evidence" for what's blatantly obvious but that doesn't stop it from being blatantly obvious. You and I both know that people will bend over to pick up a dollar that they find on the street, whether there are any scholarly studies on the subject or not. So your answer is, "Yes, among a small (segment of the) population," not, "No." You just did.

So you're claiming that nobody shifted a little farther to the right because of Bernie Sanders? Even if you took a poll, you can't speak for everybody.

In Message 1511 I asked in good faith, "Wouldn't pushing the Democrats to the left help Trump rather than hurt him?"In Message 1512 you replied, "No," which suggests to me that you were claiming that (Bernie Sanders) pushing to the left would not help Trump.In Message 1538 you finally admitted that, "This is an argument the right is trying to use but it is only getting traction among a small population." So the so-called "strawman" is getting traction, just not much.You seem to be admitting that yes, (Bernie Sanders) pushing the Democrats to the left will help Trump - just not enough to effect the outcome of the election. That's all I was asking.My guess is that your "analysis" is based more on wishful thinking than reality, judging by the "analysis" of Trump's chances to date. I've already predicted in Message 428 that Trump will be elected. I hope I'm wrong but I don't like to underestimate the stupidity of the American people.

Sanity?Maybe Trump will get fewer votes in the election than he did in the primary.

Somebody did something similar in 1938 in a little place called Sudetenland.