The corporatist charge is not truth. It’s just rhetorical claptrap.

You know, and not giving a fuck about state legislative races, and city council races, etc...but then coming in knowing fuck-all about how politics work and threatening to hijack the party because they are supposedly more important than anyone else.

Also thanks for abandoning Obama in 2010, when you didn’t get everything you wanted ASAP.

Use my words: character assassination. He also said he was unqualified, which is beyond stupid. Hillary and Obama went at each other in 2008, but it was clearly different. Hillary conceded and endorsed him. Bernie was delusional and said it was going to be “contested convention”, whatever that was supposed to…

Every single analysis of the election that I’ve seen has said that voter suppression had nothing to do with it. The problem was that Clinton was a bad candidate from the very beginning. I’m sorry if you don’t like those answers, but that’s the truth of the matter.

It’s Sanders who’s trying to burn down the party. He knew he had no shot of winning and ran anyway. In doing so, he split the party and left rancor in his wake. Now he continues to tell the party that only he knows best.

She lost by 10,000 votes in MI, 22,000 in WI and 44,000 in PA.

Sure, the Dems did a terrible job of competing with the GOP, Russia, and the FBI simultaneously. Our democracy has been ass raped, dude, and yhou want to blame the Dems? You aren’t too bright.

Sander’s effort to build a diverse coalition basically amounted to having Killer Mike tag-a-long with him, a man who’s current fan base consists primarily of 30 something white guys who want to listen to rap music that sounds like what they listened to in college.

(Sorry in advance for the wall of text, but you seem engaged, so I want to engage back because I think people who could broadly be said to be “on the Left” who disagree with each other and are struggling to figure out which way is up in the wake of the election need to have some long and complicated conversations)

The “Oppression Olympics” is what we used to call civil rights, feminism, gender equality, etc. But I guess it is easy for you to deem that unimportant.

I wanted to like Sanders. I really did. But he was an intellectually lazy one-note buffoon. A socialist who was too lazy to follow what had actually been happening in Europe for the past 25 years, and who had no coherent economic policy that rose beyond “free college” and single payer.

The thing with Bernie, like with Clinton, is that he tried to pander to them with expanded funding for education and expanded healthcare. But many of those poorly educated Whites were not up for that- they wanted stuff (ACA, for example)without the intellectual effort of education and creating a new job base. They…

Democrats tried to focus on a single issue in 2016: Defeating Trump to ensure women, people of color, Muslims, and our environment were protected. Sanders most dedicated (and almost overwhelmingly white) base decided that wasn’t important enough.

And, like that, all of a sudden all of the white people have found out about The Root.

Showing up and doing what the people who show up to vote every election seem to want? A lot of that is on the State party leadership as well as the DNC, and on an electorate that has severe “instant gratification” problems. It’s a lot harder to please multiple coalitions with multiple priorities than it is to please…

“Sanders spoke against “identity politics” while simultaneously repeating the falsehood that Clinton lost because she didn’t appeal to the “working class.”

We need this. This strain of shit going through through a vein of the party now needs to be destroyed. You want to talk about real “economic anxiety?” Then start speaking to those it affects the absolute most. Anyone who uses the term “identity politics” as a slur ain’t a Democrat and they sure as hell ain’t a…

I don’t get this weird fixation some people have with Bernie. I guess it’s good clickbait though.

I definitely agree that a lot of the things Bernie is saying are washed up, but Sanders’ point about uneducated whites feeling economically disenfranchised and Trump more effectively messaging them is correct.