Bernie Sanders Faces Feisty Democratic Challenger

[Jim Lane]

338. You keep dancing around the subject.

You've had multiple opportunities to give a straightforward answer to a specific question: Were the posts cited in this thread ACTUALLY made by the real Jon Svitavsky who's announced a challenge to Bernie Sanders, or is there some other explanation? There could be two Burlington residents with the same name. It could be that, beginning years ago, someone fraudulently opened a Facebook account in Svitavsky's name. I think both those possibilities are so unlikely as to be unworthy of serious consideration, at least until Svitavsky himself asserts that he didn't really make those posts.

Before you said, correctly, that anyone COULD open an account. Now you've moved on to affirmatively asserting that these are "phony links". You would obviously LIKE the links to be phony, because they cut against your bias, but do you have any evidence for your assertion?

As for California, yup, you've got me dead to rights. In a thread about the 2018 U.S. Senate race in Vermont, I totally neglected to address the issue of the current dispute over single payer in the California state legislature. I guess I'm busted.

There were about 13 million people who joined me in voting for Bernie. If your California statements mean that some of those 13 million have at times acted reprehensibly, I'm sure that's true (although I don't know whether or not these specific charges are true). The 13 million Bernie voters, like the 17 million Clinton voters, probably included some racists, some nutjobs, some child molesters, etc. So what? Neither camp was simon-pure, but neither of them was a wretched hive of scum and villainy, either.