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Around the lake your vacation is on, Bernie.

Don’t understand the phrase “gracious in victory,” and I just hope it doesn’t come back to haunt us all as Democrats.

Universal Health Care was Ted Kennedy's baby from the 70's and he nearly got Nixon to sign off on it.

College Tuition breaks were championed by Mondale and Gore

Climate Change was addressed by Obama (he actually called it a Green New Deal)

Unfortunately, I don't anymore. I'm tired of being accused (by association at least) as not being progressive, and having the candidates I prefer be dismissed as not being progressive.

It's not true, and I'm tired of hearing it.

Yeah. I used to listen to his radio show, but drifted away.

And this is very meaningful. Sanders has helped change the conversation.

He moved the "center" just a bit left

To move the party platform to the left. If the party does not eventually move left with us it will be left behind.





I'm not Undecided...I voted for Warren.

The platform is irrelevant. What can be done and what is done are what's important. Talk is meaningless if nothing is accomplished.

Democrats have been fighting for the issues Bill Press wants to grant exclusively to Sanders for literally decades. Many have made much more actual progress on them than Sanders has. He has yet to convince his colleagues to support his grandiose ideas even though he's had decades to do so. Actual progress outweighs lofty goals that are never achieved.

Sanders. It's as bad as Sanders taking credit for Amazon raising their minimum wage. They did that in SPITE of Sanders, were probably planning it anyway.

I don't know what it is about Sanders that causes otherwise intelligent people like Bill Press to completely ignore context, completely forget political history, and completely ignore that Democrats other than Bernie Sanders have been fighting for the same issues for literally decades. But it happens all the time.

-Laelth

She's been (unfairly, in my opinion) lumped together with him for years in part because they highlight many of the same issues.

Declare victory and withdraw the troops. That was tried in the early’70’s.

Bernie just couldn't get above 30% and that will never win much. Fortunately Democrats closed ranks to avoid having a Socialist at the top of the ticket. We now have a decent chance to re-take the White House and the Senate.

Like someone here said in another thread about kids who play soccer. Lol

Youth Soccer... "If you had fun, you're a WINNER!" No need to keep score! Everyone gets a trophy!

It's the Oprah generation!

This is why I supported him in 2016 and to this day I'm proud to have been a part of it. I think he changed the Democratic Party for the better. But he squandered some of that by being a bit of a sore loser in 2016. I hope he does not repeat that mistake this year and will bow out graciously if he doesn't win. Based on what he said on Rachel Maddow last week, I'm highly optimistic that he will.

It’s his rigidity and lack of ability to build coalitions that excludes me from being a supporter. That and the fact that Biden will have much longer coattails up and down the ballot.

so it can be said he has succeeded in some ways.

So long as we understand that Joe Biden will be our nominee this year.



-Laelth

this right-wing ignorance.

very progressive issues to the forefront. I believe he has made some of these issues more palatable to a broader audience than democrats, softening the ground.

Thank you to him, his team and followers.

Now let’s win the general election together!

even though Biden is getting the votes Sanders is the winner. Its kind of like 2016 when Hillary got the votes but trump was the winner. So when we vote for someone they lose. Can't get much more crazy than that.