The Root: Pipe Down, Bernie Sanders

[R B Garr]

272. Well, none of us are SENATORS on this board, so it's a silly analogy to ask why

we aren't speaking in place of an elected official. The whole nation celebrates MLK as a national holiday. There were parades and speakers all over this country. They were on TV the whole day -- everywhere, so it would be politically stupid for an Establishment politician such as Bernie to shun the holiday. His stated agenda for running as a Democrat was for the media attention that he couldn't generate, so that seems to be his priority. That duplicity is on display with him almost constantly. He shows up for a MLK rally for the media attention, but tells a young Latina woman that her ethnicity is unimportant. That's not a lot of progress after decades in public life no matter how many times that 40 year old picture is posted.

And some on this site still have to read already-rejected tripe leftover from the primaries such as yours that pretend that Bernie was superior when he lost the primary by millions of votes. Millions. He lost because his message didn't match his record and his rhetoric was consistently nasty and sour about Democrats. Sure young people will like to hear about free tuition and legal marijuana, but he couldn't even get his national agenda passed in his teeny, tiny, rural, mostly white state of Vermont. He got away with that duplicity because he was never vetted. Not being vetted means he was never attacked. Luckily people recognized that and rejected nonsense polls about a Trump matchup. So that didn't work out for you, either, since Bernie lost the primary.

I have to laugh at your comments about Russia. Sounds truly Trumpian right there to suggest that Democrats are just imagining that Russia meddled in our politics, especially after your hero Assange trumpeted his leaks all over the globe. Bernie tried to have Democrats fired because of his paranoia and conspiracy theories that the Democrats were out to get him, so your condescension is really laughable. If you are trying to take a potshot about other posters here (your "letters" comment), your analogy is still just downright bizarre. But it does prove that you are in these threads to make things personal, which is a hallmark of the treatment anyone who didn't worship Sanders' was subjected to. Enough is enough.