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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]murielm99
(31,647 posts)68. I think you need to prove that.
And you can't!
Hillary did not adopt his positions. She had her own platform, which was more detailed and thoughtful than anything Bernie had.
I am tired of these memes about how Hillary did not know anything or think for herself until Bernie came along. I am tired of seeing sixty or seventy years of Democratic ideals being attributed to something that Bernie just dreamed up this election cycle.
Cult like behavior is dangerous. I am not saying that to be nasty or to start a fight. Some of the Bernie followers here need to get a grip on their unhealthy thinking, for the sake of their own mental health.
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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