2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: SLANDER is the word civil rights photographer is using for those that question Bernie's involvement [View all]nyabingi
(1,145 posts)that Bernie was the second coming of Moses, but that he has consistently given a shit about the downtrodden and abused since he was a young college student and has been willing to express his positions openly.
Bernie is not trying to distance himself from his past as both Hillary and Obama have done. I bet Hillary isn't particularly blowing her own horn about being a young Republican back in the day, and Obama got on my bad side early on by distancing himself from his own pastor, Jeremiah Wright (a man whom I think was telling the straight truth).
The biggest lesson to learn from Bernie's sit-in participation is that his current beliefs are long-held and haven't deviated based on polling data or what's hot at the moment. Hillary, on the other hand, would boldly state that "I'm a proud Nazi" if Nazis ever became popular in the US - she just wants to be what everyone else wants to be.