If you look at what Bernie Sanders stands for, it's equality across the board. And he's done, and is still doing far more to help the average American than Hillary Clinton ever did.
It isn't. Earlier this year he had Democrats in a rage because he wanted to put women's rights on the backburner in his endorsement of a candidate. That's why a woman won over him last year and hopefully another woman would beat him again if he decides to run in 2020.
I call bull on the latter statement. Hillary's group, Onward Together, helped get more candidates elected this week than Bernie has the past year, as well as propelling more women into politics.
But then when you also go and say "but Bernie wasn't even a real Democrat" - then how can you expect his voters to vote Democrat if Sanders is off the table?!
Because if these people really believed in anything they say they stand for rather than worshipping at the altar of Bernie's personality, then they'd still consider someone who actually is in the party better for the economy, equality, the environment, etc. than someone trying to take us back to the '40s or who makes us the only country on the Earth who denies man-made climate change.
And, btw, just to be clear, I
don't blame Bernie supporters for Hillary's loss. I personally put the blame for that on Comey/Russia/the media relishing Trump's crazy to increase viewers because they thought he could never win more than anything else. The data shows that the majority of Bernie supporters voted for her in the end. My issue is this portrayal of Democrats as some evil monsters who are
only "the lesser of two evils," because it suits Bernie's own agenda. It wasn't even Hillary specifically because 2016 is long over and he's still carrying on with the same bullshit. As much as people say Hillary was only in this for her own ambition, the same is true of Bernie; he doesn't care about anyone but himself.
But really, it should also tell you something when so many Americans have such disdain for the political establishment, regardless of political affiliations. And the Democrats are totally ignoring this, as they continue to push establishment candidates and claim to be "liberal" just because they are in favour of such basic things as equal rights.
Better than people who claim to be "liberal" and then refuse to do what they can to stop someone like Trump from coming into power.
Honestly, the refusal to vote for moderates because they're not promising "enough" freebies for you is only pushing the country further right, which doesn't help their aims at all. You end up with someone as regressive as Trump in office, and now talking about most of these issues is seen as even more fringe left for America than they were last year. Hillary's campaign was lauded as the most liberal in history thanks not only to Bernie pushing her farther left in the primary*, but also 8 years of Obama adjusting the entire country leftwards, but it still wasn't "enough." That's insanity.
*If Hillary was too moderate for your tastes in 2016, part of it probably had to do with the fact that it should've been an easy swoop for Republicans in the first place after two terms of one party in power. Trump being the nominee was the only reason a Democrat looked like they would win again in the first place. She was trying to appeal to those people in the middle who
wanted a change in party, but were repulsed by Trump.
