"Yet it is far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness."

This is the way progress is made and minds are changed.

It is very discouraging to hear the repetitive negativism …….. Good news for Joe from Iowa (USA TODAY-Suffolk) Biden 25% ..Bernie 19% ...Buttigieg 18% ...Warren 13% …..In the 2 previous Iowa Polls (June & October ) conducted by Suffolk U, Bernie was registered at 9 % in both … Bernie is +10 % in this most unfriendly of Bernie Iowa polls ...

Can be said for the many attacks on Biden and Warren.

Bernie has always skated at the edges and never thoroughly vetted. If not vetted now, the republican attack machine would shred, pulverize and eviscerate him in nanoseconds.

but in the end, it's still a pig.

Seems they got worse.

stepped up, some didn't.

Let’s all get behind him!

He can't redeem racists, misogynists & homophobes by merely befriending them. In fact, the association taints Sanders, because it reveals his lack of judgement.

At least I think so. People grow and change. I know people who were previously GOP and now support Dems, and yeah, I don't think "redemption" is the wrong word for that. Maybe there's a better word, but that's the idea. People previously did wrong the wrong thing, now they are doing the right thing, or at least better things than before.

If a conservative is to redeem himself publicly, that would require his acknowledgement that all people should have access to & be allowed to pursue the American Dream without undue burdens, and an acknowledgement that conservatism has been a deliberate & abject failure at providing that. To do otherwise is phony and disingenuous.

I haven't seen Rogan even pretend to make such a statement, or Sanders requesting one.

I mean, you're probably not going to get a lot of right-wingers to come out right away and repeat all that stuff you wrote, but if they start by voting for Dems, that's a step in the right direction.

Sanders is showing incredibly poor judgement. It's insulting to anyone who cares about Democratic values.

I'll say you have a point. But until then...

promoting his endorsement, and thus condoning & elevating that bigotry?

Because that's what it does.

then he is condoning and elevating Rogan's bigotry.

Trans-phobic, racist piece of garbage...why yes he is...he hasn't changed or repented...he will change Sanders and people's perception of him in fact but I digress. By Sander's celebration of his endorsement, Sanders provides an acceptance of such views which are alt-right views.

Like I said, one step at a time. It's not Sanders accepting Rogan's views, it's the opposite, Rogan accepting Sanders's views. Not all of them at once, of course, but definitely a step in the right direction.

get caustic remarks by two who have been here 9 and two months respectively right out the chute. Yikes!

Oops! Make that three -- another two monther.

I gotta wonder sometimes about the motivations behind some posts. After 2016, I don't just trust like I used to.

And just to clarify, I was here at the very beginning of DU in 2001, but life interfered and I had to take a hiatus around 2004, so you could say I've been here for 19 years.

negative, and unproductive. But maybe I grew up in a different world.

I also am quite sure we've had trolls here, overt and covert. So I don't take all comments on face value these days.

when Biden wins the primary.

ONLY!!! 2020 and beyond.

I laughed.

I was wrong.

down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

He's going around telling white conservatives with questionable beliefs not to vote for him?

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