2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WaPo: "Bernie Sanders just gave an amazingly condescending interview about Hillary Clinton" [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)He wasn't a member of the party until he needed the party to advance his political ambitions.
He bad-mouthed the Party for decades, and continued to do so while running for the Party's nomination.
And now, having been soundly rejected as the Party's nominee, he somehow believes he should be allowed to "transform" the Party into what he wants it to be.
Bernie had decades to join the Party, but refused to do so. Given that, it strikes me as incredibly arrogant for him to think he should have any say in what that Party does or doesn't do. Were he truly interested in "transforming" the Party, he had ample time during his career to BE a Democrat and work towards changing things within the Party AS a Democrat.
Bernie chose to be "on the outside looking in". Is it any wonder that those of us who have been Democrats all along get our backs up when an "outsider" wants to tell us that we should defer to his edicts as to how our Party should be run?