but he is contemplating changing to Dem for re-election provided it shows signs of being the party that more closely follows his convictions.

The black voter decline can be explained by the candidate not being black. Look at the turnout numbers of black voters from 2000, then 2004, then 2008, then 2012, then 2016. 00, 04, and 16 look right about the same, and then 08 and 12 are huge increases. It was Henry Louis Gates Jr that said this very thing, that in…

I absolutely cringe when I here people talk about what “black people” want as if they share a hive mind or something. “White people” do not want hate nor do we all think the same. I live a Trump Country, California and I can tell you, the people here are not hateful racists. Their perspectives are horrendously scewed…

Um, I’m an anti-semite because I said that most of the US (the red states) is racist?

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

Sanders and the post election response to him is an indicator of the larger problem in the party.

Bros gonna bro.

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…

Bernie Bro mad.

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

Sanders needs to sit down and do more listening than talking. He may have gotten the shaft from the DNC but he deserved it.

I’ve been annoyed with the Sanders love fest since the election.

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.

they Bernie senses tingling

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

“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 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.