Guys, after seeing the Sanders supporters show their royal hineys in CaliDem's OP

[MADem]

101. They HATE him--it's astounding, some of the vitriol. As they say, "But WAIT-there's MORE!"

It sounds a lot like they've got the same copy editor as some of the Clinton-hatin' crew up in here!

They get so MAD about shit--Ooooh--he's a WARMONGER!!!! Oooooh, he's a RACIST!!!!! Oooooh--he's a ZIONIST!!!! OOOooooh--he's 'pro-NSA!!!!!"

I'm not kidding--read some of this stuff, take out Sanders, put in Clinton, and it sounds like some of the nuance-free pablum I've seen here--just hate, anger, misrepresentation and a complete failure to look at the Big Picture:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/15/sand-m15.html

When Burlington business interests and radical posturing came into conflict, Sanders came down unhesitatingly on the side his bread was buttered on. One former supporter, in a recent letter to socialistworker.org, describes how Central American solidarity activists picketed the General Electric factory in Burlington that manufactured machineguns used in military helicopters against peasant guerrillas: “I vividly remember Bernie standing arms-folded alongside the right-wing union officials from the factory and the Burlington Police Department as we were being arrested. He falsely insinuated that we were ‘anti-worker,’ and he refused to have any serious political dialogue with us activists.”
In 1990 Sanders ran for the House of Representatives, defeating an incumbent Republican and a Democrat in a three-way race. During congressional deliberations over authorizing the first Gulf War, Sanders declared his support for sanctions, diplomatic pressure and even the use of US forces to “pressure” Iraq into submission, while stopping, along with most congressional Democrats, just short of voting for the actual war. This caveat was dropped in 1993, when Sanders voted for US intervention in Somalia. Sanders then voted for the NATO air war against Serbia in 1999.....

Sanders voted in 2001 for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, the congressional resolution that was the basis of George Bush’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and the launching of the “war on terror,” and which is still cited by Barack Obama as the legal justification for drone-missile assassinations in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries. He regularly voted for military appropriations bills, required to fund the ongoing war in Iraq Sanders claimed to oppose.

.....Sanders' stance on immigration is entirely in line with right-wing efforts to scapegoat millions of impoverished and exploited Hispanic workers for the falling living standards of American working class. He has repeatedly introduced bills in Congress calling for the suspension of the federal visa program under the guise of protecting American jobs. For his efforts, he has earned the admiration of noted anti-immigrant racist and talk show host Lou Dobbs, who called him “one of the few straight talkers in Congress.”
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Now, as I've said, I think these comments--where they take facts, votes, particularly, which happened after a lot of negotiation, compromise, and "best of a bad lot" bargaining, and put inflamed rhetoric around those facts to incite people towards hatred--are beyond the pale. I like Senator Sanders, and I find these characterizations of him egregious. But then, I find a lot of the characterizations of former SecState Clinton by some of Sanders' (cough) supporters (cough) here equally egregious. They should be ashamed of themselves--I can only assume they simply don't know HOW to feel that emotional response!