Actually, 50% of the American people didn’t want him. 47% of the American people (those who voted, at least) voted for Bush. Literally, Nader supporters made the difference. By numbers. You can look it up. If Nader supporters in Florida had voted Gore, it would not have been close enough to require a recount and Gore…

Okay, and in return I want you to pay attention to how frequently Trump talks about the poor. In the end, I feel like you have to put your vote to the best possible use. Voting for a candidate who will not win the election, no matter how good it feels, is the same as not voting at all. It helps the candidate you favor…

I do respect your right to vote for a candidate that reflects your values. Notice how I’m not actually stopping you from voting? Notice how nobody here is stopping you from voting? You seem to have conflated “respecting my right to vote” with “insulating me from informed criticism of my bad decisions”, which is…

And you’re going to have more generations of Americans living in poverty if women are forced to bear children that they can’t afford.

The last president who was interested in compromising reproductive rights did that. Bush signed the Partial Birth Ban, which is a reproductive procedure, and one that is less popular than earlier abortions. He did not suffer for it as he was elected another term.

No, I’m not a neo liberal, I’m a real liberal who started working in medicine in the 1970's, bringing healthcare to the disadvantaged in the domestic Peace Corps. Single payer did not work in Vermont. But I think you care more about sophistry than people.

I think a virtual handshake is in order. I am like Obama what sociologists refer to as a ‘third-culture kid.’ I have lived alongside many different ethnicities in my youth where palpable poverty done purposely by class (often determined by the relative darkness of their skin color) and legal channels are the norm…

That’s poor reasoning. Nowhere did she say she didn’t support single-payer. However, what we have is the ACA now. Single-payer cannot get through now; we can’t even get a public option. Yet, you think it’s okay to go backwards because the best option hasn’t been implemented.

First of all, when the fuck did reprorductive rights and LGBT issues become for-the-rich-only???? I didn’t know only rich ladies had unplanned pregnancies and needed cancer screenings. Definitely didn’t know that there are no poor LGBT people. Here I was thinking, based on overwhelming evidence, that those issues…

How do you know whom I intend to vote for/have voted for in the primary? I decided a long time ago that I would be voting for Senator Sanders, back when his support was still in the single digits. I’ve been a fan of his for years.

I’m not trying to argue that I’m somehow all-knowing, that I’ve had broad experience across the planet, or that I’m “not a typical white person,” whatever that means. I am white. My family is German. I have lived in Germany. I don’t make claims to know anything about parts of the world besides America and Northern…

The poor who do not have healthcare under the ACA live in a state with a Republican governor who flat refused to implement a medicare expansion in their state. But do go on the the Democrats are the problem. You might want to look at how single payer failed in Sanders state (Vermont). Funny how Sanders never refers to…

People made this same argument back in 2000. It was enough to get Ralph Nader 90,000 votes in Florida (180 times the official margin by which Al Gore lost the state) and a George W. Bush presidency. Which, of course, led to the Iraq War and everything else that’s come since then. Did that bring about the Revolution?…

Yes to this. The number of attacks on abortion rights since 2011 is mind boggling. I want someone in the White House that will make fighting for abortion rights a real priority. Sanders answer that the *only* crucial issue for the SCOTUS is the repeal of Citizens United is the wrong answer.

Ideologically I agree with Bernie more than Hillary. However I support Clinton because I don’t believe that Sanders can win the general election. Republicans “prefer” him to Clinton because they know they can beat him. Believe me, I would LOVE a single-payer health plan. I would LOVE for America to become a country…

Those are imaginary scenarios. Her platform is sane and sound, and proposes NONE of the things a conservative president would do.

If Sanders won, as she did with Obama, Clinton would immediately support him and request her supporters do the same. She would not send out representatives (and that’s what’s happening here) to attempt extortion.

Same. It terrifies me that there are people who a) are in Trump’s boat and think he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread b) think Hillary is so evil that if she gets the nomination they won’t even vote c) think Bernie is the savior we’ve been waiting for and he’ll make everything better. None of those assessments…

This is because you have bought into Republican talking points that have been going on since the 90s. So, you are a rube of the Republican party, whatever your claims to progressive movements are.

Then have fun with another generation of a conservative SCOTUS.