Sanders:"Americans Are Not Staying Up Every Day Worrying About Russias Interference In Our Election"

[herding cats]

200. I thought this was Huckabee-Sanders.

Now I understand why this thread had so many replies, which is what lead me to finally read it.

Bernie is wrong here. He's also tone deaf, and he needs to stop trashing the Democratic Party for attention. He's not helping anymore, actually that ship sailed some time ago. This is detrimental to all of us beating the extremists in power. They and their beliefs are gaining traction daily in rural USA while we're still pretending a large portion of our country isn't gerrymandered to give these lunatics way more power than they deserve. Then add in Russian interference and we're facing yet another perfect storm. Feed their hate and fears and it's 2016 all over again in 2018. Those Republicans stepping down aren't doing so because they're scared of Democrats due to Trump, they're scared of Bannon and the extremist in their own party. Look it up. Those seats are more likely to go even more extreme right than moderate. It's almost like a remake of 2010, except it's Republicans stepping down due to the extremist RW now not Democrats.

Our ability to vote and trust that our votes, our voices, matter is paramount to our democracy surviving. There's nothing more "bread and butter" than voting integrity in the US. Don't even get me started on what's bread and butter in the Democratic Party, because I'm not clear he's actually truly focused on that here either. There's an ideological forest/trees thing going on in his messaging that astounds me in this current climate.

My impression is he's not in touch with where we actually are, let alone how dire our situation is at this moment. He's idealizing and missing the reality taking place out there. Oh, and 2020 is a census year. Which should be an earth shaking event if you're into politics and actually care about how they play out long term.