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In reply to the discussion: Sanders: Not 'impressed' with DNC election process [View all]Igel
(35,332 posts)This is division and provokes distrust. Needlessly.
It's what landed Trump in the White House. Needlessly. And injuriously.
However, Sanders is on record (for the time time period that we still accept quotes from Trump as meaningful) saying that basically he wanted to destroy the Democratic Party. Basically, I suspect, thinking that the good was the enemy of the perfect.
He's currently (I). He caucuses with (D), but he's not (D).
"His guy" would be like having an outsider run and take over the leadership of the party. It's a revolutionary thing to do. It's not a small-d democratic thing to do. It's easier to take over and use a mechanism one thinks is faulty rather than build one's own apparatus. Or so relevant history tells us. It's 2017, after all.
In that, Sanders is consistent. His idea of being a democrat is not the same as being a Democrat or the usual definition of "democrat." In some ways, on iavliaetsiia khoroshim demokratom. But we get hung up on superficial details sometimes, not essentials. We're all behaviorists, right Skinner? (Oops ... not DU's Skinner. The other, lesser-known Skinner, long deceased. I think.)