Unlike Some People, Bernie Hasn't "Evolved"

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237. No, actually Single Payer was a Democratic policy put forward in 1971.

Teddy Kennedy brought it to Nixon.

Democrats have always been the party of labor, and before they were broken by Reagan, they were the main source of campaign revenue.

Democrat LBJ was the politician who implemented civil rights and voting rights legislation when Sanders was still living in rural, white Vermont.

Democrats have continued to champion civil rights strongly, and not dismissed racism, homophobia and misogyny as "identity politics."

Democrats have long supported reproductive rights, including Planned Parenthood. Senator Sanders has referred perjoratively to Planned Parenthood as "an establishment organization."

Democrats have welcomed the candidacy of women and POC and LGBTQs since before Sanders was even mayor (Google Barbara Jordan) and have never equated celebrating diversity inn Democratic candidates with "discrimination" against white men.

Recently Sanders stated: "We have got to look at candidates not by the color of their skin, not by their sexual orientation or gender and not by their age. I think we have got to try to move us toward a nondiscriminatory society that looks at people based on their abilities, based on what they stand for."

(A few months later, interestingly, he released a list of all the women and POC that his campaign hired....)

You can repeat that Bernie originated long held Democratic Party progressive policies as many times as you like. But it doesn't make it true.