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Are Bernie supporters justified in being upset with the Democratic Party establishment? (Original Post) AZ Progressive Mar 2016 OP
You mean like decades serving white male members of Congress? That establishment? nt LexVegas Mar 2016 #1
No. Bernie is getting much better treatment than he deserves Freddie Stubbs Mar 2016 #2
Everyone has the right to their opinion. Criticism or anger at the party is no crime. hrmjustin Mar 2016 #3
Yes. daleanime Mar 2016 #4
Everyone's mad about something... DanTex Mar 2016 #5
From what I can tell from recent posts over in the Hillary Clinton group, Maedhros Mar 2016 #6
Are they saying that they are real Democrats? The DLC took jwirr Mar 2016 #9
They see what they want to see.[n/t] Maedhros Mar 2016 #10
hell yeah desmiller Mar 2016 #7
everyone certainly has a right to be upset with the DNC geek tragedy Mar 2016 #8
What are your specific complaints? Gothmog Mar 2016 #11
 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
3. Everyone has the right to their opinion. Criticism or anger at the party is no crime.
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 02:50 PM
Mar 2016

But Bernie or bust is despicable and not justified and yes I thought the same about the pumas.

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
6. From what I can tell from recent posts over in the Hillary Clinton group,
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 02:56 PM
Mar 2016

they don't believe Bernie is a "real" Democrat and therefore doesn't deserve respect.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
9. Are they saying that they are real Democrats? The DLC took
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 03:09 PM
Mar 2016

over the real Democratic Party in the 90s just like the Tparty has taken over the R party.

You have to have Democratic values to be a real Democrat.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
8. everyone certainly has a right to be upset with the DNC
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 02:56 PM
Mar 2016

establishment. I mean, Pay Day Debbie is its head.

Do they have a legit claim that they were denied a fair right to contest the primary election? Nope.



Gothmog

(144,890 posts)
11. What are your specific complaints?
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 04:57 PM
Mar 2016

I have worked on voter protection efforts for the DNC voter expansion project last cycle and wished that we had more resources. We were able to get voter ids for a couple of hundred voters but between 600,000 registered voters and 1.3 million eligible voters need these ids and there was not sufficient funds to really expand the program

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