2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So, DUers - What are we doing here in GD:P, and why are we doing it? [View all]TTUBatfan2008
(3,623 posts)Sanders supporters for the most part believe the two party system itself is corrupt. Both parties are bought and paid for by the military industrial complex, the big banks, big drug companies, etc. It is not that the Democrats are THE enemy as you stated, it is that we find it sad so many of them have sold out to the big corporate interests instead of fighting for the people. Are the Democrats better than Republicans? On certain stuff, definitely! Supreme Court is a great example.
I think a lot of Sanders people will vote Democrat for the Supreme Court reason alone, but this does not mean the party is flawless. The GOP is absolutely terrible, obviously. They are THE enemy if we really want to narrow it down as much as possible. The Democrats are better than the GOP but still part of the overall problem when they do favors for corporate America instead of working for the people. Get the money out of politics and then perhaps we will have a government that is more honest regardless of each politician's ideology or even each party's ideology.