2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: THIS is who they want to put in the Whitehouse? Really?!? [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)I come from a family of fanatic, life-long democrats - and all of us are supporting Bernie in the primaries. I'm probably more liberal than the rest of my family, but, again, life-long democrat. That said, the democratic party is not a single machine, it is not as if all of the members are decent, useful, or even terribly democratic. There are democrats - and there are democrats. So far, what I've seen from Sanders is far more democratic than what I have seen from Clinton.
No, I'm not crazy about the way the party has behaved in recent years (with the exception of some of it's members, who I think are pretty awesome) but that doesn't make me any less a democrat.
You don't get to determine who is and who isn't with the party. It's a big tent - and if a lot of independents are now going to vote for Bernie, even going so far as to become registered democrats, I think that's great.
I am very much a democrat.