There Is No "Bernie Bashing". There's Reasonable Annoyance At His Insults & Unhelpful Comments

[karynnj]

78. Focus your anger on Trump and what he is doing

Sanders is not belittling the Democratic party. If he were, don't you think Schumer would be reining him in, rather than joining him on issues that they are in agreement on? I get what Schumer is doing on those initiatives and think it is really smart on both his and Sanders' parts. Here is a link to a prominent joint effort - http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/bernie-sanders-chuck-schumer-rallies/ In fact, Sanders appeared live in Michigan the day of the rallies. In Burlington VT, his office organized a rally - that had to be moved twice because of high response -- even though he would only be "there" by video from Michigan, joining many VT activists speaking live.

You never know what caused bills to fail or pass, but I would bet that those rallies, which kicked off a lot of the activism at later town halls may have awoken enough people to scare enough Republicans from voting for their terrible plan. Schumer is the most powerful Democratic Senator in the Senate, but he clearly saw that Sanders has a constituency in addition to the residents of Vermont. (Look back to November 2008, before HRC was named SoS, here at DU, there were tons of threads arguing that she needed a position that reflected her power in the party outside the Senate -- rather than just being a Senator too junior to chair a major committee. To a lesser degree, lesser because HRC 2008 was stronger, that disparity probably led to Schumer's decision.)

I can see that it is impossible to discuss anything related to Sanders with you at this point. Not to mention, I vote "gas lighting" as the most over rated, over used, phrase of both 2016 and 2017! In this instance, it basically means that you reject completely everything I wrote, returning to the same accusations you started with.