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In reply to the discussion: Bye bye, Bernie: He's not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can't stop chasing the great... [View all]dgauss
(1,226 posts)15. It's the same smears used against him in the primaries.
It's continuing to construct a straw man Bernie Sanders that is a threat to women's rights, doesn't care about civil rights, is only concerned about white males, is actively divisive, and is demanding a "third way centrist bullshit" agenda. I'll admit that's a new one to me.
And, in general, promoting the idea that somehow advocating for common sense economic changes equals dismissing social justice.
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Bye bye, Bernie: He's not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can't stop chasing the great... [View all]
DonViejo
Apr 2017
OP
When a "friend" is "perpetuating the dangerous myth that the Democrats have ignored them"...
SunSeeker
Apr 2017
#59
No, he said that last November. But he still thinks class is more important than anything else. n/t
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#38
"75 percent of working-class voters of color voted for Clinton, not Trump, last year."
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2017
#14
He already had his re-election committee set up (as an Independent) before last year's convention.
George II
Apr 2017
#19
Sorry Sanders and HRC voted the same 93% of the time. Not much daylight between their records
emulatorloo
Apr 2017
#41
The resistance has been majority women- every protest, 85% of calls to congress,
bettyellen
Apr 2017
#108