I am a Democrat

[Tom Rinaldo]

33. "If one side believes that there is no difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican...

I think it worth stating that this is absolutely not the position that Bernie Sanders has taken, and he frequently emphasizes quite the contrary in his public comments. Granted, a rather small percentage of those who supported Bernie for President may feel this way, but not the Senator. He caucuses with Democrats and joined the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership team. He campaigned for Hillary Clinton last fall which indicated a clear party preference between Democrats and Republicans in a binary system (regardless of whether or not one feels he did enough to help her win) and he spurned any overtures from the Green Party. Earlier this year Bernie also toured the country with the newly elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Yes he has voiced some criticism of the Democratic Party. No doubt in my mind that he sees it as constructive criticism when he does. No doubt in my mind either that not everyone agrees with him that it is constructive. But one would have to be willfully uninformed, no matter where you lived, to not know that Sanders himself sees a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties with the Democratic Party the far better choice between them.