What's with all the threads about Sanders? This is DU. He is NOT

[frazzled]

75. Because

Idolatry.

Gotta have your heroes, you know, even if they are flawed (like the rest of us) old men still spouting the same ideas and phrases they've been hawking since the early 70s (ideas that have their origins in the 1920s). And even though he's never made an inch in progress in effecting any of these ideas, he says them loud, and with a wagging finger, which people think is cool. And those who don't realize these are old ideas and not particularly fit for the 21st century and its technological, global, multicultural demeanor, think they will Make America Great Again, like it was during the Roosevelt administration, when, you know, there were still lynchings all over the South, and schools were legally segregated, and it was okay to put Japanese Americans in interment camps for a few years at a time.

And also because ... even though 17 other public figures have first said it ... when Bernie says the same thing it is unique and deserves a "Bernie Says" thread. Because, as we know, his you know what doesn't stink like the you know what of everyone else.

And, idolatry. It's kind of embarrassing.