Bernie Sanders is nothing but a heckler

[JCanete]

402. No it doesn't. It benefits our party to create an environment where the groundworks is laid down

so that insiders trying to navigate the fraught terrain where big industries have so much power have some cover to respond to the will of the voters. If you don't have a public demanding, you don't have a counter-balance to that power. Sanders was effective at building that demand and politicians in the democratic party did and have taken note. If Sanders had been a divisive force among democratic voters then his own voters would not have been shown to have turned out so heavily for Clinton.


And I will never advocate a position where we simply do not speak criticism to our party. It is simply untrue that any vehicle of power is good by simple virtue of its purity. The democratic party isn's some mythical griffandore. It is only as good as the voters who continue to make it so, because nobody looking to exploit power is simply going to thumb his or her nose at a seat with a D on it. Have you heard about the IDC in New York?