2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It seems to me that Hillary is done [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)perfectly well, he's voted with Democrats, most of them liberal, over 95% of the time for a quarter century. But we know he's radical by personality by his behavior, including his extreme righteousness, his vast intolerance of all who do not share his views, and his rejection of all political solutions that differ from his. These are classic.
Liberal personality is classically characterized by openness to new ideas, acceptance of those who are different, and and willingness to cooperate with others.
Thus, although there is great overlap in their goals and Hillary could probably accept most of his means to achieve them if they were possible/practicable, Bernie refuses to accept any of her means to achieve them even if they are achievable and would advance us toward his goals.
A willingness to accept complete failure rather than compromise is characteristic of radicals. It is not of liberals, and thank goodness for that.
Just tremendously different.