What do Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore and Bill Clinton have in common?

[BainsBane]

64. Interesting perspective.

And I agree we would do better to ignore the threads. I have his name on auto trash but tend to get pulled into threads through the front page or jury duty. I must do better because I've wasted far too much time.

I think he is vilified precisely because he is so divisive. I initially argued to Clinton supporters that they not blame Bernie for Clinton's loss. Yet he soon because so public and frequent with his recriminations, he made it difficult to ignore him.

While I appreciate and agree with him on a number of the issues he raises, on some issues his influence has been to move a large group of voters to the right. Since those are issues that most directly affect my daily life, that concerns me. I'd feel a lot better if his supporters would say I admire Bernie cecause of x, y, and z but disagree with him on q. We instead see contortions designed to defend him, with anything he says treated as infallible. Any criticism or even suspicions of inadequate devotion are fiercely patrolled. Frankly it scares the shit out of me.