I've always liked him. A lot of his supporters though, not so much. I know some of them have never been Democrats but this over the top Bernie or nothing shit doesn't help him or his cause at all.

I don't know what they think will happen but yelling at me that I'm a fucking useful idiot because I've decided to back a corporate shill who doesn't know anything about anything and will probably get indicted any day now (Fitzmas pt. 2) sure as shit doesn't make me go "Hmmm' you may have something there, maybe I'll give good old Bernie a second look".

His campaign at the moment is specifically designed to tear down Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party. He may not have originally meant it that way - and I, like many others, welcomed an opportunity for him to move the narrative in the campaign to the left.

Instead, what I see is an angry "oppo army" as I call them doing everything they can to demonize Hillary, to fixate on anything she's done in her entire life as evil, to loudly proclaim that they'll never vote for her - and Bernie Sanders himself doing nothing to stop it.

He's trying to break the Democratic Party and he's doing it on purpose. I can hardly even stand to look at him anymore.

I had heard about it for years, and I see that disdain starting to slip out because of stress.

Having worked in progressive orgs for years, I am still disheartened about the way that so many are just angry, angry people to deal with.

...I've lost every bit of respect I ever had for Bernie Sanders, precisely because he does nothing to stop the rabid tone & conduct of some of his supporters.

In the beginning I referred to him as a great man whom I wouldn't criticize while I advocated for Hillay po ry. Today I refer to him as "Back Bench Bernie!". If, by some miracle he succeeds in his quest to become the Goldwater/McGovern/Mondale of 2016, I would vote for him. I'm at a point now though where it would be with held nose.

Since this post violates the recent " BernieUnderground " litmus test of blind and unquestioning loyalty to the non Democrat seeking the Democratic nomination, I expect the coming alert!

PEACE!

probably because I've never lived in VT but I see a lot of it travelling to visit family so I'm not really surprised to see him acting like a politician. He's always been really good at pretending that he's different but really he can be a brutal one if he wants to be.

I've always hoped that he's ignoring the Berniebros in the hope that they go away but as time goes on I think he sees them as useful. I think they're hurting him more than they're helping and can't see their usefulness personally.

...that he isn't just too thin skinned to compete in a national election against REAL, not Vermont Republicans/teabaggers, he is also not nearly as smart as he should be to do so!

PEACE!

It looks like GDP on steroids. Ah but the Bernie Bros are a made up story.

And how they are all vicitims

been there.