There is a double standard on DU.

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122. It's not a double standard. One person became our nominee and our party leader.

The rule is, we don't tear down that person.

Second, Sanders continues to present himself as a Democratic leader, even though he's an independent and has nothing good to say about the party. We're Democrats. We get to talk about him and what he's doing -- and the change he wants to make in us, regardless of our ideology and respect for the need to represent most Americans.

You know, when he stepped up to try to appeal to Warren's people, I was ready to listen, ready to start learning about him, and ready to vote for him if I liked what I saw. It took months, but, short form, in the end I emphatically did not. He's a rousing speaker, and that's all.

As for Sanders as a leader for the future:

Haven't you ever wondered what happened to attacking our huge problems of
* Income disparity and the extremely dangerous accumulation of power and wealth in a billionaire class?
* Weather becoming a destructive enemy.
* Fascism on the rise in America.
* College/technical trailing out of reach for millions.
* The imminent end of most jobs.
* The threat that SCOTUS could make programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, VA, etc., unconstitutional.
* All the rest!!!

How is it that Bernie's most ardent followers can do nothing but squabble about replacing the ACA? Nothing matters but a single payer program that could be swept into oblivion by 5 people in robes? Really?

We must have a can-do leader, not a hapless gadfly. We get to discuss and to criticize.