Is Bernie Sanders fighting for the Democratic Party?

[Cary]

140. You know what?

All I have ever advocated was voting for Democrats so that we can enact our agenda and not theirs. My Senators are Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth and my Representative is Jan Schakowsky. I adore them. They speak for me brilliantly. I don't care so much where they get their money from as long as they continue to represent me as brilliantly as they have.

So I come to this place and others and I say I have nothing against Sanders, which is true. I am called "third way" and "neoliberal" and any other epithet that the purveyors of such nonsense feel clever about concocting. I get third party this and Joe Manchin that. Why am I responsible for Joe Manchin? Is he representing his constituents? Why do I have advocate burning down a party that serves me well?

I am fairly certain that I am in line with a solid majority of Democrats and a solid plurality of Americans. The 35% or so on the rabid right extreme are not in and of themselves a threat to me. We simply have to vote for Democrats.

I just wonder why I'm supposed to tolerate the people who claim to be liberal who show me nothing but abuse and who stab me in the back without remorse. And then they blame me. It's somehow my fault that they are disaffected.

Vote Democratic. Just do it. Cut the crap. Work for what you believe in, by all means. If we have a corrupt Democrat you don't have to support that person, but dial back the smears and nonsense.