Do you have any evidence that the Democratic National Committee prefers Trump to Sanders?

Depends on if we can flip the Senate.

Numbers are still coming in, but voters in the 18-24 range turned out at around 15-18% in California, about the same as in 2016. This despite the state all but begging you to vote by mail, including sending ballots out six weeks before the election and putting ballot drop boxes all over the place. In Sacramento,…

Numbers are still coming in, but voters in the 18-24 range turned out at around 15-18% in California, about the same as in 2016. This despite the state all but begging you to vote by mail, including sending ballots out six weeks before the election and putting ballot drop boxes all over the place. In Sacramento,…

The degree to which white people in the Rust Belt voted against the woman they’ve been told was an evil castrating bitch for 30 years, rather than voting for the guy who insists he’s a socialist, turned out to be pretty high. Who’da thunk?

Young people don’t tend to vote.

The DNC basically has a couple of jobs: they set the rules for the debates and how delegates will be allotted, they run the national convention, and they hand out money. They are not an all-powerful cabal that enforces their will upon a clueless electorate.

Republicans fall in line; Democrats fall in love.

There is: it’s called getting rid of the Electoral College and moving to a parliamentary system. Of course that has it’s own problems--see also the UK. The structure of the EC, though, makes it so that all a third party will ever be able to do is act as a spoiler.

I think single-payer health insurance is a great idea. No one except Warren, though, seems to have a plan for how it’s actually going to work in practice. Even Warren’s plan depends on the Democrats taking the Senate and abolishing the filibuster—which neither Biden nor Sanders supports.

“Fuck this; I’m off to Vermont!”

You do realize that the Sanders campaign signed off on the way the primaries were going to be run, right? And that they insisted that we continue to have caucuses, which are the absolute antithesis of the small-d democratic process, since they privilege people who are able to take time off for an all-day affair?

Where does him voting against the Brady Bill come in?

How does Sanders plan to implement Medicare for All? What’s his plan to get it past the Senate, other than hoping that people will march and Mitch McConnell will suddenly see the light? What’s his plan to transition the current system to single-payer, and how is he going to pay for it?

What has Sanders accomplished as a senator? Please be specific. I’d really like to know what legislation he’s sponsored.

The youth vote didn’t turn out in California, where the state all but comes to your house to pick up your ballot. You’re encouraged to vote by mail. Ballots arrive 6 weeks out. There are voting stations everywhere, including on community college campuses.

Not speaking on behalf of anyone else, but I try to look at all of a candidate’s record. Anita Hill and the bankruptcy bill are huge negatives for Biden; VAWA, and his support for LGBT rights are plusses. The fact that Sanders hasn’t sponsored any major legislation in his time in Congresss is a negative, as are his…

All candidates have pros and cons. I’m not a Biden fan. I will never forget Anita Hill, and I hold Biden responsible for Clarence Thomas (spit)being on the Supreme Court. Biden is responsible for the horrible bankruptcy bill. He’s also responsible for the Violence Against Women Act. He voted for the Iraq War. Within…

That’s something that I don’t understand. Sanders actively worked to court Latinx voters, but then he pretty much blew off and dismissed black voters, just like he did in 2016. It’s like he realized the need to expand his coalition, but he couldn’t bring himself to actually work for part of it. He acts like he resents…

Bernie was born in Brooklyn, got arrested in Chicago, and then hightailed it to one of the whitest states in the union.