She's done the party much more harm than good!

She should have been sent packing after her disastrous results in the 2014 election!

Some people seem to think the world started when they or their parents or their grandparents started voting. The Democratic Party has been around since at least Andrew Jackson. (Some say Jefferson, but, I don't know about that.) Bernie is definitely to the left of New Democrats. Whether he would have gone as far left as the Great Society or the New Deal had he been in office in the 1920s, I don't know.

Unfortunately he's almost as radical as Truman on questions of war, participating in the general consensus. He's promising he will be as bad as Obama, though certainly not as bad as bomb-Iran Clinton or onward to the neocon and apocalypse-seeking variants of the Republicans. In any case, that's what he says. I didn't lend credence to all those who claimed Obama was just faking out the right and secretly going to be more progressive, blah blah. It's more possible with Sanders, but not in this context, in this particularly regressive atmosphere of seeing deadly enemies everywhere, all the time, and total valorization of the militarism and nationalist bullshit. Such a consensus has bought into this idea that the threat is constant and has to be proactively attacked (which is the formula for creating the threat in the first place). I guess you can't challenge Wall Street and the imperialist war-profiteering systems in the same election? Probably not. Just some thoughts.

Beautiful OP by the way.

At least as I see my realistic choices.

He voted against the war in Iraq, he voted against the surge in Afghanistan, he has not found the death of Gaddafi or the prospect of nuclear war in Iran a laughing matter and he doesn't like actions to effect regime change in other sovereign nations. Yes, he voted for the war in Afghanistan, and I do not approve or excuse that. However, Hillary voted for every war and surge for which she could vote, etc.

As between Hillary and Bernie, an anti war voter should choose Bernie, IMO.

Hell, I was even content with the difference that saw Obama merely pursuing the seven wars without adding Iran, which is what Clinton would have done. (tried to do!) It means a lot of lives, right, and less chance of nuclear war. I'm just not going to idealize the "Saudis getting their hands dirty" or "our wonderful ally King Abdullah" as antiwar, okay? Certainly no one can justify the neocon war mongering of Clinton, but it's all only relative. How is the machine ever to be stopped?

This is Fox News, right?

It's the Atlantic, and thus usually the species of right wing commonly called "liberal." But you know that.

The HRC folks use "right wing source-Squirrel!" as a common response to articles that are less than drooling for Hillary.