re: #123 darthstar

It’s not hate. He simply stated some basic facts: The Democratic party didn’t contribute to KS-04 - that was a strategic decision on their part. Disagree with them if you must…personally, I think he was off the mark here - getting involved nationally would have only helped the GOP candidate in KS-04 because the DNC/DCCC is a fucked up pair of entities right now and they would have screwed the pooch. What he needed was a little silent money to help GOTV and he might have pulled off the Hail Mary and won the race…but definitely not a huge opportunity.

Back to Bernie - I disagree on KS-04…if it was on his radar he should have made a trip out to KS…but he didn’t, because it’s fucking Kansas.

As far as ‘own goaling’ his party goes, he’s not the biggest problem Democrats have right now…he’s a voice that gets attention. Maybe working with him to escalate messaging might be a better strategy than leaving him out there as the only consistent progressive voice against Trump. Everyone else is split between hating Trump and hating Sanders…why does that make sense?

Remember, this is politics - you don’t have to, nor should you necessarily - love the person fighting for you in government. Take any personal animosity against Sanders and shove it right up there in the collective sphincter of outrage next to my animosity toward Clinton. It’s not helpful…trust me. Or don’t. Doesn’t matter. We’re all just Internet noise at the end of the day.

Darth, don’t bullshit me because I’m not in the mood. You know what Sanders has been doing since he lost because you’ve been on Twitter nodding along to it. He’s still out there spreading the Gospel of Bernie, telling folks that the key to future Dem electoral victories is to bring the “White Working Class” back into the fold by ditching “identity politics.” That the DNC lost because they didn’t do enough to address the “anxiety” of the WWC. And in so many ways basically saying the only reason the DNC lost last year is because he wasn’t nominated. He’s already back to branding himself as a party outsider, running next year as an “independent” while he preaches about the ills of a party he holds no loyalty to. His remarks about KS-04 pretty much fit the mold we’re familiar with: The only way the “revolution” can succeed is by co-opting the DNC, running on the party’s money, and if it fails then the party is responsible.