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96. Enough with the Brock conspiracies. It was Bernie's own words.

It was Bernie's own words about focusing on the white working class, and it wasn't intentionally misinterpreted. It was what Bernie said. Just because people picked up on Bernie's polarizing statements doesn't mean they were wrong or need to be scolded or called liars, corpodems, third wayers or whatever other divisive and alienating names his side was tossing out to voters who weren't on Bernie's bandwagon. Bernie is very divisive. He has divided Democrats.

As to the whites Bernie was targeting, Donald Trump told them they were going to get their grandfather's jobs back. That was in addition to whatever open bigotry he promoted. Donald also stole Bernie's smears against Democrats to manipulate those voters. As we see now, approximately 80,000 people decided this election. Most of your comments are again trying to gloss over the simple fact that Bernie made Democrats and Hillary Clinton the enemy, and Trump saw a chance to further divide those voters by using Bernie's own divisive rhetoric with the added promise of bringing grandpa's job back. There is no doubt that Bernie primed the pump for Donald to manipulate this election. Donald is a con man, and he saw a divisive attack that would work to his advantage by watching Democrats fighting amongst themselves based on Bernie's divisive attacks. It was all to Donald's benefit. Donald even thanked Bernie for the ammo. That's the number one reason not to have divisive and prolonged primaries.

Bernie seems to be very self-interested and interested in his image. He is accusatory but very superficial, enough so that it just alienates people. I expect him to make statements that further advance his limited Powerpoint talking points and not much else. Sure, he'll be out there now trying to be Democrat's savior, but
in some circles he is heading into persona non grata territory because of his divisiveness.

And every election should be evaluated. That is political science and it doesn't take a loser or winner to continue that tradition. If you didn't win 100% of the vote, then analyzing where you can do better next time is expected. What's strange is seeing Bernie supporters who lost over 6 months ago telling people how to handle a loss when they can't seem to grasp that they should take their own advice about that.