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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: To our establishment friends in the Democratic Party [View all]FoxNewsSucks
(11,501 posts)Never have been. I do not do as the MAGAts who go along with whatever their leader decrees. I also don't think of politics as a "team" thing, the way people mindlessly follow and worship their sports team.
I agree with the liberal points in the post I referenced. I'll support any candidate who fights for that. I want it to be the Democratic party and it should be the Democratic Party, but not all of the candidates with D after their name will stand up for those issues. That's why I called it shameful. An "I" has to stand up for what "D"s should already be doing.
Also, I feel like I would be a hypocrite to mock the way rightwingers fall in line to support what they're told, then follow establishment Democratic leadership when it continuously drifts more and more to the right of the liberal policies I believe in.
We need a caucus of elected officials who will fight republicon fascists with the same ferocity that tRump and the republicons fight against us. And they should be supported here as well. I brought up Manchin/Sinema as the perfect example of Democrats who worked to actively undermine the good things Joe Biden tried to accomplish, yet were defended here simply because they had a "D" after their names. At least for a while, anyway. Yet Bernie Sanders is constantly attacked, despite living up to liberal Democratic policy and working toward that goal.
===Note to jurors: I'm not encouraging ANY vote for ANYONE who would caucus against Democrats. Nor am I intending to be "divisive" or make a "group attack". I generally like reading the poster I'm replying to and wanted to give that post my honest answer.