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(45,319 posts)1996 Crime bill, they say 'Bernie's bill demanding mass incarceration'. Clinton's bill, Hillary backed it, a huge majority of Democrats and 2/3 of the Black Caucus voted for it, but on DU it is 'Bernie's racist mass incarceration act'.
Senator Gillibrand has spent two years advancing the Family Act, providing family leave to employees like all other decent nations do. Hillary's supporters on DU call that 'Bernie's flat tax to fund his revolution'. He was one of many Democratic co-sponsors. That's it. 'Bernie's flat tax'.
Commodities Futures Reform, every Democrat in the House but two voted for it, Bernie voted for it, Bill Clinton pushed it and signed it. That cohort says 'Bernie backed the banksters'. I think he voted wrong on that one, but so did every Democrat but two. The entire Senate voted for it, Kerry, Biden, but that cohort says 'Bernie did it and he's evil'.
So he's both 'not a Democrat' and constantly blamed for voting too much like a Democrat.