2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Politico: Sanders booed by House Democrats [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)Are you even reading the responses that people are having to Bernie these days? People are getting pissed off. Pissed off people are less amenable to adopting other people's suggestions. Do you know WHY they are getting pissed off? Because Bernie is being tone-deaf, disrespectful, condescending, arrogant, and so are many of his supporters, and people are getting tired of it. I used to support Bernie until mid April but the above factors got too much for me to bear, and I'm to his LEFT! Yes, you can be on the Left and not support Bernie, believe it or not, because Bernie and his supporters have pushed a myopic, self-marginalizing, outdated, and tone-deaf vision of what the Left is! Bernie's idea of the Left is one where we spend more time attacking Democrats for not implementing maximalist solutions than attacking fascist Republicans for stopping ANY solutions. Where our main goal is trying to convince racist working class whites to vote Dem rather than supporting the diverse base of our party. Where our outreach strategy is screaming at people and telling them they're shills for not being as left rather than forming a popular front against reactionary elements, and then steadily moving the more conservative members of that front leftward (as what happened with World War II where the conservative Churchill and the socialist Atlee ended up agreeing on most things)
Right now Bernie is getting his tail wagged by the ultra-fringe, the people even Trots couldn't stand because nothing was ever pure or good enough. The people who think he's a traitor for even running in the Democratic primary (as opposed to running as an independent and electing Trump). Those are the people he's trying to appease right now and he's looking like a fool. He needs to realize that these "independent leftists" haven't liberated a single worker or uplifted a single marginalized person no matter how "radical" their rhetoric sounds.