Democratic Primaries

People always spoke of moving to the left in the primaries and into the center for the general election.

Although Sanders and others on his side claimed he has won the ideological battle, other than their declaring that, what makes it true?

I heard Sanders obnoxious end to his speech - where he essentially took essentially every Democratic issue - including ones that Biden and others have fought for their entire careers and positioned "Joe" as against them and demanding to know why.

In some ways, this is what I have seen on twitter. I have seen hundreds of people responding to Kerry's WWZero actions on climate change demanding to know - why, if he was for fighting climate change, he did not endorse Bernie. The fact is that Kerry, Gore, Markey and many others have tons more credibility on this issue. Though Kerry was clearly the essential negotiator to get the Paris Accords, Obama gave him the backing to do so and as teh US/China agreement was reached, many people in the Obama administration helped get the rest of the world on board - including the VP! As to Sanders, I can think of NOTHING he did on this issue in the Senate or the House - other than sign on to the Green New Deal.

Elizabeth Warren in her comments on Biden had a succinct defense against Sanders' nonsense. In addition to saying Joe Biden was a decent person, she said that their goals were in the same direction. All of the animosity sprouted by Sanders in that "Joe" part of the speech was that Biden would not commit to exactly what the "revolution" demanded - forgetting that Senator Sanders in 2010 said there were only 10 Senators for M$A. He KNOWS that even if he became President -- he could not get Congress to pass that!