I feel crazy seeing some of these responses to Bernie's speech.

[pat_k]

214. Many of the people denigrating the course he is taking now...

... are the same people who have been denigrating him throughout the campaign.

For some, Sanders is a terrible, self-obsessed, acerbic, greedy, grandiose, racist, misogynistic, insane, quixotic, raging, and generally repulsive, human being. (Or some combination of these characteristics along with various other characteristics being bandied about.) For these folks the fact that supporters cannot be convinced to see Sanders as they do is so infuriating they seem to be going off the rails a little bit.

Of course, since Sanders is such a horrible man, the course hie is taking is necessarily a horrible one.

It takes an objective look at the dynamics currently at play to acknowledge that there may be benefits -- both long term and short term -- to the course he is taking.

I think most people "out there" in the real world have a much more mixed view of the course Sanders is taking then we see here. After the extreme black and white "debate" here on DU, it's refreshing to see some decent articles that examine both the potential upsides, and potential downsides.