So, I heard Bernie Sanders on the radio talking about trying to work with the Tea Party base.

[MADem]

4. Uhhh!!!! OHHHHH!!!!

What do I think? This won't end well. Kiss your social security goodbye! Kiss your minimum wage goodbye? Unions? Sayonara! Medicare, medicaid? Those things don't marry well with "personal responsibility!" Put the kids in one bedroom, because Gramma and Gramps are moving in! Returning responsibility to the states? That's code for Let's Discriminate Against Gays and Minorities!!!

Yeah, the Tea Party...great allies, if you're a craven hypocrite. Right to Work, yee haw! No taxes, yippee! That means no decent roads, no schools, no public utilities...whoopee!

Those people don't LIKE progressives. They're selfish "I GOT MINE" types. Progressives care about the community as a whole....the concept of "personal responsibility" which is a cornerstone of the Tea Party movement is a huge EFF Yew to the concept of caring about the least of our brethren.

http://www.theteaparty.net/about-the-tea-party/

Does Bernie believe that VT is "that different" that people there will continue to care about others if these clowns are legitimized? He'll see that whole social safety net that state has crafted crumble as wealthy Tea Partiers flee the shitholes they've created for more pristine parts, like VT, and bring their uglyass ideas with them.

Of course, by the time it gets real bad, he'll be gone--he won't have to reap the harvest of allowing those jerks to plant and grow their lousy ideas.