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In reply to the discussion: So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)and then encouraged his supporters to vote for Hillary. I don't know how giddy you wanted him to be. For one, its not in his grumpy old man personality. For another, he had just come off of a highly contested long campaign against her. I think he gave a speech at the convention that was perfectly acceptable.
All those issues of civil rights, medical services, etc... he has been fighting for his whole political life. He's more like an old school FDR Democrat. Those that pushed those very issues that you mentioned. Meanwhile the so-called establishment Democrats have been pushing the party right since Bill Clinton. Obama, who followed the same third way corporate friendly agenda that Bill started, even put Social Security on the table at one point, and we even heard top Dems using the Republican invented fake term of "entitlements" to describe them even though these are benefits paid for by workers.
I just mentioned Sarandon as a joke. Some blame this one person for a major reason Hillary lost. Her power is amazing apparently. I just wonder if she had voted for Hillary, and spoke about it on talk shows, and if Hillary had won as well, would there be OPs praising SS by long time Hillary supporters for her one vote, a vote that tipped the balance in Hillary's favor? I don't think so.