Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Owe the Democratic Party a Damn Thing

[Hekate]

21. The Dem Party allowed him to use its infrastructure, which he had NO part in building...

...and is worth millions of dollars to any candidate. He then proceeded to "bite the hand that fed him" throughout the campaign.

He failed to actually educate the folks who came to his rallies (how and when to register to vote, how to check their status, the importance of registering AS DEMOCRATS TO VOTE IN A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY) and then kept telling them the system was rigged and unfair when they had failed to comply with logical rules in place before they were born.

Initially I was glad to see him in the race. He and Hillary have voted together something like 93% of the time; did you know that? And she, not he, brought a Socialist health care plan before the Senate; did you know that? She also got crucified for it, and a lot of the canards against Hillary that are repeated today by BS supporters originated in the feverswamps of Right Wing strategy in those days.

The media gave Bernie every chance in the world. They never had a bad word to say about him, and you know why? Because they never took him seriously enough to even bother with basic journalistic research. It was an incredible blessing for Bernie. Every nasty question and innuendo that Andrea Mitchell lobbed at Hillary has a counterpart for Bernie -- but remained entirely unspoken.

As for the GOP candidates, their oppo file on Bernie has got to be mighty thick, and what they can't get from the Vermont newspapers they will simply pull out of their butts, because it's what they do. But have they? No, because they never took Bernie seriously either. They have expended all their considerable venom on Hillary Clinton, hoping to bring her down. In their fondest dreams the GOP wants to run against Bernie, a colorful, if angry, old man from a tiny state who's never ever been vetted by the mainstream media.

Instead, the GOP has to put up Tinyhands Trump against the woman with a spine of steel, a woman who has always made the men in that party clutch their delicate parts defensively.

Bernie "owes" the Democratic Party a helluva lot. Now let's see if he returns the favor in any measure at all by bringing his people over after a suitable period of mourning.