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10 Reasons Why Bernie Sanders Won't Win The Democratic Party's Nod (Again)

1. Like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is an artifact from 2016 - voters want to forget 2016's election cycle.

2. Like Hillary Clinton no one cares if it's "His turn".

3. But it is still a woman's turn. That narrative never waned and is taking on more steam by the month after the Year of the Woman of 2018. Old white males will be on a time-out after yet another year of Donald Trump. Sorry old white dudes but time for some golf.
 
4. We absolutely cannot afford to allow Trump to win again we will be told and that perception will prevail on the party not to indulge the socialist independent for a nominee.

5. "He's not a Democrat!" And this time around Democrat rank and file and the super-delegates have will have no patience for any non-Democrats contending for the ticket.

6. Wall Street and Silicon Valley will still determine who is viable as a potential leader of the Capitalist enterprise called America. Their influence has only grown larger in the time since the financial crisis of the final Bush year. He's too damn socialist will be the killer. There is no freaking way America in the early 21st Century will be adopting a boutique socialist agenda or flag outside the White House. Sorry SDAs, but "THIS IS AMERICA" as Childish Gambino would put it.
 
7. Americans are yearning for a stable presidency with no drama or conflict. Major social and political storm change after the Obama/Trump years has been exhausting on the electorate. A female go-along-to-get-along centrist bipartisan bridge building novelty will be on order. It's the American Way.

8. The media. Mass media and social media in particular. Less and less independent news outlets and newspapers mean less opinion, analysis and journalism in general. The homogenized news feeds the electorate will be munching on between binging on 'Game of Thrones' and Netflix will be culled of any "fake news" alternatives, sketchy "state sponsored" content and absolutely ANY meddling attempts to inject unofficial narratives of our voting choices going into 2020. It will be a conformist Paradise (or Hell depending on how you look at it). The Bernie Bro's will wither in the nuclear winter of moderated opinion and meme sharing. DNC Darlicks will roam and annihilate any and all contaminated threads on social media. Accusations of "BOT!" and "Unwitting Agent of Putin!" will abound. Bernie Sanders' candidacy will be swarmed by legions of sock puppets dragging it down into fake controversy over its malicious harboring of misogynists and racists looking to re-elect Trump if it is not handed the nomination on a silver platter. This is already in place and happening.

9. Cable TeeVee. Apart from being just media, cable teevee has emerged as a medium of self-perpetuating and fake news reinforcing punditry in an epic chase for ratings bonanzas. It's created its own corporate alternate reality of shrill nonsense on a scale not imagined even five years ago with MSNBC eclipsing FOX NEWS in sheer partisan schlock - CNN coming up a close third. Voters too busy or exhausted to catch up with policy debates or speeches depend on the cable to get their fix on the horse race and who's in the lead with the Democrats at any given moment even as they shake their collective heads over the shameless skewed  exposure granted to cable TeeVee favorites. Perception is everything even when its willingly consumed and especially when it reinforces preconditioned biases. Bernie will be practically erased on Cable TeeVee BUT will be featured as the useful foil if any of the centrists stray outside their appointed lanes.

10. And finally...Bernie will inevitably be found to have Russian oligarch ties in his past, and maybe a few RT appearances with Susan Sarandon. This will dovetail nicely with the Red baiting already in play. #RUSSIANS! will still have a lot of gas left in the tank post Mueller to take down a fate worse than "meddling" with the DNC.