2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Post removed [View all]otohara
(24,135 posts)he's still doing it... can't stop himself. He has no alliance to anyone but himself.
We have to ask ourselves, Why should we work within the Democratic Party if we dont agree with anything the Democratic Party says?
He had an enormously contentious relationship with them, said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), then a state senator.
Back in those days, said Maurice Mahoney, the head of the Democratic Party in Burlington in the 80s, his goal was to destroy Democratscertainly on the local level.
It was a Democratic town that he basically took from them, said Bill Conroy, who wrote a dissertation on Sanders tenure as mayor.
Said Hamilton Davis, a longtime Vermont reporter and Sanders watcher: They hated him, and he hated themunreservedly.
In 86, he decided to run for governor, against Kunin, which bothered herSanders daily diet consisted of vitriol, she would write in her memoirand worried many Vermont Democrats, who thought he might peel away enough votes to foil the reelection bid of the states first female governor. Democrats, Welch recalled, were extremely upset.
The main difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in this city, he said in an interview in Burlington in July with a Cornell student writing a masters thesis, is that the Democrats are in insurance and the Republicans are in banking.
In that summers issue of Vermont Affairs magazine, he called the Democratic Party ideologically bankrupt, then added: They have no ideology. Their ideology is opportunism.
I am not a Democrat, period. Sanders support for Michael Dukakis, the eventual nominee, was so tepid it almost didnt even qualify. He dubbed Dukakis the lesser of two evils as opposed to George H.W. Bush.
In an op-ed in the New York Times in January 1989, he called the Democratic and Republican parties tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, both adhering in his estimation to an ideology of greed and vulgarity.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-2016-democrats-121181
Then his threats to primary our president