2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary reminds the Bernie folks that he wasn't a Democrat until now, and they don't like it. [View all]workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We have to ask ourselves, Why should we work within the Democratic Party if we dont agree with anything the Democratic Party says?
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a liberal Democrat,
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.
Still, he stressed: I am not a Democrat, period.
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.
At the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York City in April 1990, he asked, Why should we work within the Democratic Party..? He said at the gathering he was running for Congress that year again as an independent because it would be hypocritical of him to run as a Democrat considering the kinds of things he had said about the party.
Can Bernie Sanders Win the Love of a Party He Scorns?
The long, troubled history of Bernie Sanders and the 'ideologically bankrupt' party whose White House nod he now seeks.
By MICHAEL KRUSE and MANU RAJU August 10, 2015
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-2016-democrats-121181