2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The exodus of Bernie supporters from JJ did not go over well among Iowa Ds. [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... for him to run within the Democratic Party for president, because the SYSTEM is f'd up for him to be able to run realistically that he is FORCED to run for one of the two parties in order to have any kind of realistic chance of winning the election. Don't blame him, but blame the two party system, and as I said in other posts, push for the Democratic Party to endorse putting in place instant runoff voting, to avoid third party spoilers that will happen more and more as the Democratic Party ALIENATES its true and traditional Democratic constituencies of PEOPLE rather than corporate donors!!!!
Yes, he's justified in that first quote, when someone like Barack Obama as a member of this party pushes more heavily than he even did for single payer or a public option for us in the ACA to put in place TPA and TPP earlier. THAT is an *ideologically bankrupt* position. Explain to us why it isn't!!!
I think on the second quote, taken out of context by the way and not attributing it to the original Politico article that had more information on his earlier political career, the operative word in this is "Democrat" not "liberal". Bernie has ALWAYS been progressive and liberal, and never a Republican the way Hillary was when she supported a candidate in Goldwater that was AGAINST the Civil Rights act then, amongst many other inconsistencies in her so-called "progressive" career.
When both parties take so much from corporate cronies, and work against their people constituents with crap like the TPP, etc., then YES, many of them are tweedle dee and tweedle dum on more issues over time that affect their corporate cronies. The corporate cronies through their ownership of the corporate media just have them take support on social issues that are liberal to keep us divided while both parties are paid to support government that allows the 1% to get more and more control over it.
The real hypocrites here are those that claim to be progressive with BS names for institutions like the "Progressive Policy Institute" and "Progressive Coalition for Jobs" that do things like push corporate friendly policies like the TPP instead of what real progressive stances would be on issues that they try to hijack and mislead people on.
The massive hypocrite is the one that tries to say she's been a progressive on so many issue that she's changed her tune on over the years, where on ISSUES, Bernie has been consistent in supporting stances on issues that work for the benefit of the REAL people, not the CORPORATE people of this country.