If Sanders isn't a democrat [View all]

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then it's because democrats haven't got their shit together. He's been working for what they claim to believe in across his entire career--even when they opposed him.

The party platform: https://www.democrats.org/party-platform

Sanders' platform: https://berniesanders.com/issues/

Right on civil rights before it was popular: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/22/20_examples_of_bernie_sanders_powerful_record_on_civil_and_human_rights_partner/

Right on gay rights before it was popular: http://www.queerty.com/5-times-bernie-sanders-was-championed-our-cause-before-it-was-popular-20160131

Right on opposing the war before it was popular:

Right on TPP before it was popular:

Right on Keystone before it was popular: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/07/bernie-sanders-shatters-big-keystone-xl-lie-pipeline-oil-prices.html

Right on Panama before it was popular: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-panama-papers_us_5703c2d4e4b083f5c608d386

Right on drug price gouging before it was popular: http://www.albionmonitor.com/0007a/berniedrugs.html

Right on unions before it was popular: http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/11/15/a-socialist-in-the-senate/

Right on minimum wage, healthcare, immigration, food stamps, highways, etc.

And on and on and on.

Not to mention successfully financing a national campaign without large donors or exclusive fund raisers--showing all of us that we are needed and they are not.

Decades of video: http://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=People&query=bernie+sanders

Decades of public records: http://www.ontheissues.org/Bernie_Sanders.htm

If democrats are not that, then they should be.