The next time you are thinking about praising Bernie Sanders....

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343. The point was rehashing the primary

not bashing. To claim that any critical discussion of Bernie in the present is rehashing the primary is patently and willfully false. But if one is to make that argument, then the fan threads would also qualify. Bashing Democratic public figures is another category, not dependent on the primary. The rule about the primary is not about positive or negative, but about letting the damn thing go. That of course is impossible since some have based their entire political consciousness on him. Note how these discussions are never about issues. They are always revolve around outrage that someone somewhere doesn't like Bernie, as though that actually matters.

The problem is that Bernie supporters have decided that even quoting his own statements amounts to bashing. You're just going to have to face that fact that not everyone considers him infallible, and some of us still value independence of thought.