Bernie! Bernie, bernie bernie bernie bernie bernie. Bernie: Bernie bernie

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300. There is plenty of evidence.

Saying that Democrats would "be flexible" on candidates who were not so anti-gun and pro-choice, very recently.

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9203970/democrats-abortion-economic-justice/

And for years now.

http://www.rawstory.com/2013/10/bernie-sanders-tells-ed-schultz-southern-democrats-are-tired-of-being-abandoned-by-the-party/

He says abortion is a "social issue," (actually a public health issue, thank you) which he dismisses as being less important than economic issues, and dismisses issues of LGBTQs, POC and new Americans as being "identity politics" which detract from his main issues - as if race and orientation don't affect one's economics.

Why do you think that doesn't appeal at all to the vast majority of southern African Americans?

Sanders has been reelected by a tiny overwhelmingly homegenous, white, lefty, rural population, where people of color don't have it so good. It's natural that he would focus on those issues, and those that he himself experienced - as a white, straight, working class male.

He has stated that if we "move right" on those "social issues" then the rust belt will elect politicians with neosocialist economic policies, and once our economy is magically legislated by the Bernie followers, then all those other issues will "right themselves."

Apparently when he took that trip to Rome, he didn't bother to take a look at Europe, where their socialist policies and universal health care have not in any way shape or form solved sexism, racism, nationalism and Xenophobia.

If he thinks that democratic candidates moving more anti-abortion and pro-gun will make a bunch of goverment-hating white men in the midwest suddenly start to elect neosocialists, he is in for a huge suprise.

But the rest of us knew that already.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/16/bernie_sanders_inequality_blind_spot_why_social_issues_and_economic_justice_cant_be_siloed/