Isn’t it just a time to be grateful that your candidate got the nom?

Everyone knows that sanders did a great deal to bring the party to 15 dollars an hour, begin to think about Medicare for all, dumb wars, dumb trade, climate change with green deal.

Enough of sanders stories. Everyone knows his contributions.

He is maintaining a campaign in all but name, and has indicated quite clearly he intends to make trouble at the convention.

He continues to allow persons employed by his campaign to make scurrilous charges against Mr. Biden, in many cases echoing attacks which are made by Republican operatives.

Attacks will cease when he makes this half-hearted mess of a 'concession' into a whole-hearted expression of support for Mr. Biden, and a full-throated denunciation of those among his followers who wish to damage the prospects of the Democratic Party's nominee for President.

It would be helpful for well-meaning supporters of Sen. Sanders to make clear that the partisans of that faction of 'Bernie' adherents which seems unwilling to support the Democratic nominee are flat wrong, and to seek by their own actions to demonstrate how wrong they are. Rather than to claim that when this faction of 'Bernie' devotees are attacked for what they are, nihilist wreckers whose actions assist the cheap thug Trump, it is they themselves who are being attacked. It is rather like a main-line Protestant minister complaining that when the likes of Falwell Jr. or Rick Wiles is attacked for their pernicious statements and actions, it is Christianity, and all Christians, who are being attacked. If you are not claiming Mr. Biden is a senile racist rapist who killed millions in Iraq, whom you could under no circumstances vote for, no one is attacking you. I certainly am not, and would not. You would probably find I agreed with you on many points of policy, and certainly on most goals to be sought.





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

We may put to one side the ludicrous idea of Sanders showing politeness to a woman. That is outside the man's public character.

No one supposes Sen. Professor Warren's supporters evince any hostility to the Democratic Party, or need any particular courting to back Mr. Biden. Sen. Warren was my preferred candidate, and the preferred candidate of women in my household. We do not need her to endorse Mr. Biden, we understand what is at stake in this election.

Little or none of this can said of devotees of Sanders, or safely taken for granted where such are concerned. You and I both know this, and it cuts a poor figure to pretend otherwise.






"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

I'll lighten up. Biden shouldn't adopt a losing platform, it would be stupid and counterproductive. There is support for universal health care but MFA isn't the only path. France and Germany have excellent systems and neither is single payer. The candidates pushing MFA all lost. Green New Deal is not a winner with the wider electorate either.

Bernie Sanders does not define what constitutes progress.

Not until then.

So long as he speaks of gaining leverage for disputes at the convention, 'Bernie' remains on balance a hostile figure, who will need to be watched, and contained.





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

I wish Bernie and his supporters would quit acting like it was all their idea. Elizabeth Warren also ran on it. The dems will get it when they have the power to do it, not because Bernie said it.

That must have really been irritating to some who thought it was their own issue.

was still writing essays for a local zine.

Al Gore won the Pulitzer Prize for his advocacy on action to reverse climate change going back to his days as a Senator - while Bernie was still Mayor of Burlington. The Green New Deal was not even fleshed out enough to get past a floor vote.

So no, Bernie didn't "bring those ideas to the party..."




And Bernie was happy to settle for a $10 minimum wage working with Trump after Trump won the election...

to universal health care. He needs to sit down now and join in the effort to oust Trump.

Of what went wrong would be useful. Framing it as "we won on the ideas" precludes making a shift in strategy for the progressive movement. Sanders's strategy couldn't sustain a deep coalition. That should be considered as the progressive movement moves forward. I am confident that people like AOC are thinking seriously about this.

already we have 40 moderates who took back the house...we are building a coalition where they (I mean the Sanders type progressives, I am a liberal progressive) will be in the minority. they will in the end have less influence if they follow the scorched earth Sanders path.

Bull shit.

Link to tweet

Let's hope these attitudes don't lead to a 2016 repeat.

I think that the admonishment should be going to those who "can't take a loss" don't you?

divisiveness and chaos he cause in our primary.

As an Independent of course.

I'm sure that not having to identify as a Democrat, even just in campaign events, must be something that is an upside as far as he's concerned.

decades previously. Couldn't be more establishment than that.

Even Republicans know that the Democratic Party is the party of universal health care and equal distribution of wealth. Who are these people who believe that typical Democratic ideas were "radical" until Bernie gave a stump speech about it? So tired of the "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the most progressive of them all?" game.

Sanders can’t even claim that he won the “youth” vote (people below age 50). He won the majority of those in that age group who voted in the Dem primary. That does not extend to everyone else in that age group.

Proclaiming he had 'won the argument' after leading Labour to a recent trouncing so thorough the Tories emerged with an eighty seat majority.





Urged supporters to continue voting for them, so they could have more 'leverage' at the convention. On past form, Sanders wants to be backed by disruption at the convention so he can strong-arm his way into concessions far greater than reasonable persons would seek, or allow if petitioned.

Other candidates simply employed the legal formula that allows them to continue soliciting funds to pay off their campaign committee's debts.





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."