2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie bragging about Republican support [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)There definitely ARE populist independent and Republicans that see Bernie as finally being an honest politician pushing on issues that 1% elites don't want, but the 99% DOES. Even if some of them have more conservative social viewpoints, some of those weigh that Bernie has the power for "the people" that they aren't getting from Korporate Republicans or that they perceived that Korporate Democrats have limited their choice to in the past.
Just because some Democrats here (Demokrats) HATE populists which is why they want Bernie shut down so much, doesn't mean that there aren't many of us who want that corporate power taken down that they brought in when they allowed the Koch brothers to help them start the DLC cancer back in the 90's in the party that has gotten to a point that this tumor needs to be removed from the party to stay viable.
There are many Republicans who have RIGHTLY complained along with many of us that banksters haven't been prosecuted even to the extent that Reagan's administration prosecuted them during the Savings and Loan crisis under the Obama administration with the likes of Holder NOT doing his job, and that that LACK of the DOJ doing it's work for the American people shows corporate corruption of our party which we've complained about for a long time too. The corporate media has tried to make this an "Obama problem" which some Republicans swallow as the reason, but many are seeing the systemic problem of corruption in both parties now and that Bernie represents a way out of this damage.