Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie goes existential and PBS ain't having it. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)when he was eligible? Because neither party had an answer? Neither the Republicans arresting and even murdering civil rights activitists or the Democrats passing the voting rights acts of 1964 and 1965 and sending the National Guard to desegregate schools? And much else? Putting an end to school prayer as a violation of separation of church and state, for isntance?
Tell me, Yo. Why DIDN'T Sanders vote Democrat to establish Medicare? Why wasn't he determined to defeat the Republicans' efforts to block it? Was it because "neither side had a real clear solution" for elderly and disabled people suffering and dying for lack of healthcare?
Why DID Sanders try to destroy the ACA at the same time that the Republicans and their kleptocrat classes were? Why IS Sanders advocating for destroying NATO at the same time Trump and Putin are?
Illuminates a whole different meaning to his usual "Anyway, the Democrats (Republicans) do it too."
Imo, there's something wrong with all people with this consistent anti- liberal, anti- progressive, anti- Democratic Party pattern of repeated refusals to take stands (such easy and moral ones!) for progressive actions that were right and necessary.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden