Must be just you..

I've had Bernie people deleting me on Facebook for supporting Biden and insisting he's basically "blue Trump."

People deleting you from Facebook...do you know people in America actually die of completely manageable diseases due to lack of access to healthcare? Democrats could have fixed that long ago, but here we are..

Fucking medicine. Maybe you’re just on a whole different level.

The lack of affordable healthcare coverage is a scandal, not a joke.

… and so is this constant implication that every other candidate but Bernie's supporters want people to die because we're somehow not for universal health care. It's really getting old and it warrants a little snark.

Glad it's gone

… and now you move the goalpost to justify his crazy followers when someone else says they're doing it too.

Keep on moving the goalpost. Just don't think the rest of us don't notice.

and I've never seen anything like it either. I think some of the madness of the past few years is spreading.

One woman said that a good friend of 15 years was accusing her non Bernie supporting friends of being DINOs and even Trump supporters. It has taken on a very cult-like feel to it and it is extremely disturbing.

I'm avoiding discussing the primaries with my Bernie supporting friends, though one is now on board for Biden. I can't wait for this to be over and hopefully sanity will return to the Democratic party.

It’s a winning policy that we should have delivered. It’s the sanest argument in America..Medicare for all.

with Medicaid expansion would bring healthcare to everyone. If private insurance companies can't compete, they will die off and we will have single-payer. Meanwhile, with a public option, Medicaid, and Medicare, the government can set limits to what hospitals and doctors can charge for services. Hopefully, the same will finally be true for drug companies as well. If we can win back the senate, we can finally get legislation through to control drug prices. We need solid majorities in both houses.

Couldn’t get it done..a public option wasn’t “moderate “ enough, when, in truth, it would have been wildly popular.. We didn’t have the courage to fight for it. Gave the riches in a sell out to the insurance corporations. Shame on us.

Just sixty votes, giving each senator a veto. The public option was included in the House version but Joe Lieberman and a few others wouldn't vote for it in the Senate.

and at least two Blue Dog Dems voted against the public option. We need a bigger majority and for longer than two years.

And brought a whole bunch of Dems with him. They needed to seize the moment and push forward for a public option. I believe Obama had the popularity to get it done, but the fight for it just wasn’t there, but what was there was plenty of $$$$ from the insurance corporations.
The Medicaid expansion was great but easily shot down by the SC. Old news, I know, but lack of good healthcare is a scandal in America and always has been.

with a lot of Democrats and by the mid-terms, he lost a lot of his popularity within his own party. Some of that was because the ACA didn't go far enough (not Obama's fault) and some people were still resistant to government run insurance and the individual mandate. It was a really hard sell and it took a lot of guts for Obama to keep pushing it.

I remember it got so bad that many Democratic members of congress didn't even want Obama to come to their states and campaign for them. Seems really strange today, being he is one of the most popular leaders in the world and certainly the most popular Democrat.

That’s why it was unpopular. The parts people liked were the Democratic additions. A public option would have saved it. We’ve got to learn to fight for what is right.

Of course I’ll vote for Biden because 4 more years of trump would be the end of us all, but I’ve pretty much given up ever seeing a fair and just healthcare system in my lifetime. I’m a liberal past my time..

We are so far behind other developed democracies. I think we've reached a point where people will not settle for the same old crap. They just can't afford to.

Did you know that as Vice President, Joe was going to sell his house to pay for his son's cancer treatment? If the Vice President's son can't afford his hospital bills, who can?

If not for us, for our children and grandchildren!

To better days indeed...

They are my primary concern these days!

And twins to boot. What fun! My youngest turns 13 this summer. They grow up so fast.

I wish I'd had grandchildren when I was younger, so I could enjoy them longer, but they were worth the wait, plus twins was a bonus. I live in an in-law apartment so I see them often. My apartment looks like another playroom!

How cool.

Lots and lots of twitter posts about how people have lost friends.

JUST IMHO
It says a lot about a “movement/cult” that has no room for anyone but one of their own. This is not who we are.

are pretty rational. They include my mom, who is a loyal Democrat. So, in total, I know seven of his fans and they’re happy to get behind Biden when the time comes.

to learn, like adults do after they lose at one stage, to switch gears and go for the party package in the next stage.

First ask them to prove they've registered to vote. If they haven't, then you can see more clearly who they are. Many "cultist" candidate followers just want to extol the rightness of their candidate but don't actually take the trouble to vote, for whatever excuse; imo, people can still vote while they struggle; they should see voting as part of their struggle.

The way I see it, the General Elections separates those who can move forward, from those stuck in their rightness. It separates the adults from the grownups.

imo

and don't include any politics on Facebook, where I do have some Bernie supporting friends. (And very conservative relatives)
The thing that really seems to separate those who are from those who are not from the people I know personally is a grasp of the seriousness of 2016 Russian interference, and all the repercussions since then--from Mueller through impeachment right up until the Trump talking points being used by supporters of Bernie today. Right now.
They still seem to think that corporate interests are our biggest problem. I only wish they still were. Those were the good old days.

The Sanders supporters I know this year that are nutz - a small percentage of the Sanders supporters I know - aren't close friends and I just don't get into discussions like that, as I already know how it ends.

But first, write a post that anyone who doesn't respect my politics is not a true friend and I warn you that I will unfriend you if you try to give me a guilt trip for not agreeing with you.

I think it's actually a little better this time around.

by telling them she voted for Sanders just to avoid the arguments.

they are totally brainwashed....I just do not get it.

we had a couple that we learned were supporting trump. Immediately cut all ties after the election night. We have friends who are Sanders supporters but we don’t talk much politics with them, they are far more reasonable anyway but it annoys me that they don’t like my role model, Hillary. They say something about Third Way, I didn’t even know it was a thing. Hillary is one of the most progressive democrats we’ve ever had.

It's upsetting, I won't get into the details.

one learns how to dodge the fruitless political argument. My advice is, don't engage. Talk about your kids, your pets, your favorite sports team, the Oscars, local restaurants, your favorite new book. It's difficult, especially if you're active on social media, but "avoid" is the only option.

which means that politics isn't the first topic (or the tenth) that comes to mind when I'm interacting with other people. There are just so many more interesting things to talk about. I don't know how most people I know vote, or even what party (if any) they belong to. This year doesn't seem any different.