If Bernie seeks the Democratic nomination, it doesn't MATTER what his voter registration is.

[Ken Burch]

39. Not the same-it's different being a registered member of the other major party.

And it's already clear why you're using McCarthyite tactics like your anti-Bernie whispering campaign and your revival the "the left and the GOP are conspiring against Democrats" smear.

Basically, your agenda is to make sure the primaries are a passion- and ideal-free zone, as they would be without Bernie.
You want another bland, mundane coronation like we had in 1996, 2000, and 2004-years when this party was a dead zone, years when there was nothing in our party's message that anyone actually cared about-just seeking "vicgtory" fpr "victory"'s
sake-exactly the kinds of campaign that drove progressives to third-party campaigns out of utter hopelessness-years when the party represented no one but the CEO's in the luxury boxes at the convention hall.

People who support the left wing of the Democratic Party want this party to be a living center of activism for real change-a party that talks about what really matters, that admits that this country has a class system and an unchecked war machine that all people of good will must resist and work to replace with something better.

People that back your wing of the party want it to be nothing more than a mundane party of the status quo that accept the whole basic set-up without question and call for nothing but tiny, meaningless unnoticeable increments of cosmetic change.

Without massive corporate donations, your wing of the party would soon vanish and we'd have a fighting, passionate, unapologetic and strong party, a party with a consistently winning record in elections, a party that actually dared to set the terms of the debate once elected, because we would finally be a party that stood with the vast majority of people in this country who are left out by "market values", austerity budgeting and perpetual military intervention 'round the globe.