I have deliberately avoided the Bernie Wars.

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162. You do realize that this obsession with popularity is rather unhealthy right?

Nope, you're giving him credit for other people's work.

It is literally a ignorant lie to pretend that no one was talking about Single Payer before 2015. It's called literally ignoring the history of the party, Single Payer, and lying to boost a candidate that doesn't have a great history of success and is not even the most associated politician with Single Payer.

I'm not trying to denigrate Bernie, just countering the BS that is being pushed by people who apparently had no freaking clue what Single Payer was, or anything about the Democratic Party.

It's sad that popularity polls, that don't actually show much popularity, even against Trump, Pence and Bannon are being bandied about, and personal attacks and lies are used to deny the basic fact that the Democratic party with its long history of discussing Single Payer.

When the "defense" is preemptive and based on a rather fractured reading of words and intents, it's simple offensiveness. One wonders why simple facts are thought to "denigrate".

Same line of thinking with Trumpkins, odd similarity there.