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In reply to the discussion: Meet Bernie Sanders' 2018 challenger [View all]NNadir
(33,582 posts)...sensible gun control doesn't represent me at all.
We each have our own issues and it is just pure hubris for anyone to announce that his or her opinions "truly represents Democratic VOTERS."
I for one, am not into making the perfect the enemy of the excellent.
Democratic VOTERS chose a candidate in 2016. It wasn't Senator Sanders. The Democratic Candidate in 2016 WON the most votes, but an ancient relic of slavery in our constitution caused a racist pig to take office rather than the candidate who overwhelmingly won the most American votes.
That Senator Sanders opposes the racist pig and his racist allies in Congress does not mean that he speaks for all Democrats beyond that simple article of policy on which all sane Democrats agree. He speaks for all of us on that one issue, but that doesn't mean that many of us don't consider much else of what he says to be blather.
I certainly regard him as a blathering fool on the issue most important to me, climate change. He surely doesn't speak for me there. He clearly is completely and totally disinterested in science for one thing.