The Bernie Bashing is so counterproductive.

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93. Bernie sees things very dualistically

Clear even when he speaks:

He stated "Where Booker and Cummings get it right..." instead of "Where I agree with Booker and Cummings..."

Because Sanders doesn't tolerate dissent on certain issues, and if you disagree with him even slightly on any of those issues, you are "not a progressive" no matter how much you have accomplished for civil rights and economic reform. He clearly considers himself the final arbiter of "progressive" and "correct." That sort of "my way or the highway" thinking can come off as confident and consistent to some, but self-absorbed and authoritarian to many.

If you run on the Democratic platform, you are a progressive. The platform is progressive. That platform includes being pro-choice, and following the medical profession's recommendation that we oppose non-medically sanctioned restrictions on abortion.

However, since Bernie has determined that abortion is a "social issue" and not, as the medical community has stated, a public health issue, then Bernie will still consider you "progressive" so long as you adhere to his economic theories.

I don't consider that "progressive" at all. The fact he thinks championing reproductive health is "optional" for a progressive puts him, for me, outside of where our party should be, and it will roll us back.

I guess I just don't buy that Bernie is the arbiter of "progressive" and if you have to believe that for "party unity" then party unity isn't going to happen.