Why is the attitude towards Bernie, 'stay out of the way if you're not going to join the party',..

[csziggy]

89. If Bernie wants to change the Democratic Party he needs to join it for longer than a campaign

He cannot have as much influence over the party if he is not a member of it. If he joined the Democratic Party and convinced his followers to do the same, they could move the party far to the left.

By staying out of the Democratic Part except when it benefits him, Bernie Sanders is keeping a large segment of the far left out of the party and that lets the party drift more to the right.

And if as you say "a lot of the people that wanted Ellison as the head of the DNC really have no interest in the Democratic party" then I am fucking glad that Ellison lost for the same reason I am glad Bernie lost in the primaries. If the main supporters of those two are not interested in the Democratic Party and building party unity then they should not be in it. They are serving the interests of the Republican Party and the people who want to deconstruct the social network and the parts of the government that protects people from the corporations.

Those are the people who are serving Steve Bannon's goals even as they think they are going for something loftier. If they don't or can't see that, then they are as willfully ignorant as the Trump followers many here make fun of.

The Bernie Sanders' followers who believed the right wing lies about Hillary Clinton and who refused to vote for her gave us this shit stain we now have squatting in the White House. They gave us Steve Bannon and all the Russian owned traitors now in control of the maggots in the government. They gave us the most corporate owned Cabinet in the history of the US government.

And they did it while claiming that Hillary Clinton was "owned" by the establishment and corporations.

If Bernie Sanders had come out after November 8 and said he was going to stay in the Democratic Party to build unity to fight against the Trump administration and the massive control of the Republicans, I would still respect him. Instead he dropped back out of the party when it no longer served his purposes and his followers continue to tear apart the Democratic Party.

So I have no more respect for Sanders or his followers. They cannot really care about the country because their failure to unite under one party will keep Trump and the Republicans in charge and allow the destruction of what has been built to protect the average person.


So if you are right about what the Sanders followers feel, then FUCK Bernie Sanders and his toadies. May they burn in hell.