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In reply to the discussion: This is going to get a lot of blow back, but it needs to be said! [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)Staying a third party champion only takes votes away from Democrats and lets Republicans be elected. Republicans have only moved this country more and more right, farther and farther away from the issues Sanders claims to espouse.
While the Democratic Party of today may not be as far left as Sanders would like, it is far closer to his ideals than Republicans ever would be. If he had stayed in the Democratic Party he could have kept it farther left than it is now. By splintering the ultra left out of the Democratic Party, not only has he weakened the party that could have gotten his goals in place, he has forced the party as a whole to a more centrist stance.
Aside from all of that, Sen. Sanders has not proven himself to be the most astute campaigner. His timing on national politics is poor and his followers tend to alienate many who might otherwise want the same things.
I like many of the things Bernie Sanders supports - I just do not like the man himself. To me, his followers seem as dangerous and irrational as some of the Trump supporters - and he does nothing to try to lead them back to a more rational point of view.