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This is going to be my one and only Bernie Sanders thread. He is NOT a Democrat and never has been. That has worked for him but, honestly, not for Democrats. He is, in my view, a self absorbed demagogue. So let's look at some facts:
He DID profess to be a Democrat ONLY when it suited HIM.
. . . but . . .
He DID NOT actually become a Democrat
He DID NOT leave the primary soon enough to allow time for wounds to heal and for HRC to benefit from his supporters.
He DID NOT release his tax returns.
He DID NOT give loud, clear, and unequivocal support to HRC when she needed it most.
He DID NOT, as we found out later, support and protect his own female staffers.
He DID NOT engage POC on a basis equal to that with which he engaged white people in general and upper middle class white people in particular.
He DID NOT wave off support from what appeared to be Russians even as it was clear the GOP guy was getting the same.
I have no interest in debating any of this. They are my own beliefs. I have no use for Sanders. I wish he would just go away. In my view, he is poisonous to Democrats. I have had the words "bernie" and "sanders" on my trash word list since MF45 was sworn in, in large measure because of Sanders. I will watch this thread, for whatever that's worth, and refresh those same words.
Like Colbert's bears, Bernie is dead to me and he knows why.
By the way, and for the record, Bernie is NOT a Democrat and not subject the protections on DU that accrue to REAL Democrats.
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