I don’t get why it’s either or. How about a balanced diet of protein to carbs? Then you aren’t getting off smells either freaking way.

Except it’s all about him. It’s the way he gets credit for other people’s work. It’s the way his benign racist statements can be excused, but despite being a product of his time, he’s also an unchanged leader in civil rights who’s always been correct. So, you can have him. If you have enough people per state, he’ll…

Bernie Sanders has been a politician for nearly 40 years. Tell me what he has actually done to add to progress before he ran for president as an anti-Hillary in 2015. I’m interested to know why a career politician is so radical now. 

Personally, I realize it signifies nothing and I fully accept that it may be my own bias against him that my disdain for him does lie in that moment somewhat. My disdain for him, though, was not fully based on that moment alone. Say what you want about Hillary, but Bernie was and still is ineffective in anything other…

I can say that it contributed to my not liking him because (and I know this is probably projection of my dislike but whatever) his base and ultimately Bernie latched on to it like how animals interact with Disney Princesses. A bird landed on you? Cool, dude. Now tell me how you’re going to make the country better…

Yes! He’s fighting, he fought, he’s a fighter! If I spend 40 years fighting and I lose every time, please don’t elect me President and imagine I’ll fix everything by my superior fight skills. I might just be bad at fighting.

Yeah, Bernie’s so old that’s he’s a part of a generation that hasn’t been a real force in American politics since the ‘90s.

Thank you! I love (/s) how the author touts his long progressive career, but what has he actually *done* in all those decades? Vote on shit? Cool, cool. It’s amazing that he gets credit for all these progressive stances while doing the bare fucking minimum as a Senator.

He is running to suit his own ego.

Um... the Affordable Care Act.

Issues are personal. Politics are personal. “Identity politics” is a right wing dog whistle  and a bit of a shibboleth.

Everything is identity politics when your identity has been used to oppress you. It is only people of immense privilege, who have been able to see themselves represented in the highest echelons of power for all of history, that would think that there is a difference between politics and identity.

Why choose Sanders over Warren though?

Just gonna hang out here in the grays and note that there are three stories about Bernie Sanders on the front page of Jezebel. Elizabeth Warren releases a bold, comprehensive plan for universal childcare which seems of particular interest to women and nothing but crickets here. My problem with Bernie Sanders is he…

This is a great point. Like when the Republicans were desperate to undo Obamacare but had absolutely zero idea how to take care of the newly uninsured. I still remember Trump, in his ungodly idiocy, saying at one of the debates that health insurance companies would COMPETE to insure those with preexisting conditions -…

The easiest way to understand Bernie Sanders is that he’s not interested in forming a coalition of diverse interests working together, but instead wants everyone to support his goals and assumes that everything will work great after that happens. Which is fine if you share his exact interests and goals — but he…

I like a lot of his policies. He has huge blind spots when it comes to race and gender, and since women and people of color make up a large part of the Democratic party that can’t just be hand waved away. There were a lot of reasons that party members voted for Hillary in 2016 (none of which had anything to do with…

I didn’t vote for Sanders in the primaries because I didn’t think there was enough of a there there with many of his ideas, and the idea that he’d actually be able to get anything accomplished seemed pretty small. He’s a ranter, which can be good, but POTUS needs more than a ranter - it needs someone that understands…

I really, really think he would have done better to strongly endorse someone rather than throwing his hat in the ring again. I don’t know if he could beat Donny, and alternately I’m also worried that if he *doesn’t* get the nomination we’ll have anger and disenchantment on the left similar to what we had in 2016.…

There is only one criteria by which to judge Sanders and every other current and likely Democratic candidate: can he beat Trump? Every other consideration is secondary.