Never. It has never made any sense at all.

"I don't agree with anyone and they're all a bunch of corporate stooges, but I - and I alone - am the one who can unify them."

The bizarre thing is that he quite honestly seems to believe that, and even if he doesn't, his supporters quite certainly do.

is it just me or does this sound a lot like Trump?

"I don't agree with anyone and they're all a bunch of corporate stooges, but I - and I alone - am the one who can unify them."

I'll preface this by saying that Sanders is nothing like Trump politically or personally, but his rhetoric covers very similar themes. It's rigged, the media hates me, the establishment is against me, both sides are bad, and so on.

Different song, similar lyrics. I think it's entirely possible that a lot of people saw that similarity and acted accordingly.

I agree they are different but I've been noticing some similarities between Bernie & Donnie.

It gets old. It was old the first time in Bernie's case. We just hadn't gotten a full does of tRump yet. And after four years of him, I'm surprised there weren't a whole lot of MORE Democratic voters running for the hills when Bernie resurfaced again to again start pointing fingers at the Democratic *establishment* whose sandbox he's been willing to occupy when it helps his agenda.

We need unifiers in this race not another populist divider. Mr. Sanders goes out of his way to soft peddle or totally ignore the divisive rhetoric that comes from his campaign headquarters. The irony , to me at least, is that I agree with 99.9% of his policies and goals. I'm afraid that his campaign staff in particular and way too many of the "Bernie Bros" will so turn off enough of the more middle of the road/moderate factions within our own party AND the same group of Independents that we'll ........ the thought is way too painful to even think of.

is that Bernie's supporters have been sucked into the hate for those of us who are true members of the Democratic Party. They have turned many of us off with their hate and attacks.

for under 30 yesterday?

We get the job done.

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So a rally has 20,000 people in a state that has 8 million voters, leaves a buttload of people in the group's Sanders targets not involved with the rally, while his language toward them turn off other voters that he need voting for him.

President Obama using the nicest language possible to describe Senator Sanders as myopically inflexible.

that is. Is a man whose accomplished little in his long political calling for revolution to be trusted?

As someone posted yesterday, you don't remodel when your house is on fire. Our house is on fire now. We don't need promises of revolution and unrealistic freebies. We need to put the fire out (rid the country of the Idiot), return the country to normalcy and decency, and the only candidate who can do that is Biden.

A movement centered around one person is, by definition, not a unifying force. It's an isolating one.

Listening to us, but instead he stands before rallies of his own base and expects us to come to him. And the reason is that he thinks that he and he alone has such a monopoly on the right positions that everyone else should and will just fall into line (“I alone can fix it.” ) It’s a version of narcissism that, while somewhat different from Trump’s (but in many ways the same), the country has had enough of.

He whips up anger against the Democrats and then whips up his supporters with charges of establishment rigging when real Democrats he has insulted and dismissed don’t vote for him.

The real subtext of Super Tuesday, as I see it, is that voters were not just seeking to find the candidate who could beat Donald Trump but the one who could stop Bernie Sanders.

What else is new?

is full of African Americans and women -- who didn't appreciate his attitude.

every group in the Democratic party

You throw me, a lifelong Democrat, under the bus and trash President Obama, my favorite President, and expect my vote? Please.

all they do is blame others, Democrats, for losing. Drives me insane.

Yes, he is. Extremely weak. He's been completely ineffective at gaining ground over his support from 2016, and has lost quite a lot of that. He should have been coming into this cycle as a clear and solid front runner, given his position, money and support. He's spent hundreds of millions of dollars and managed to insult and alienate the very people he needs to trust him enough to vote for him. If he can't succeed in getting a consensus on the nomination, then he clearly can't do so to fix health care, climate change or anything else.

As a leader of teams and organizations, large and small, over the last 30 years, I can assure you that he shows a distinct lack of leadership in his ability to form teams, make good personnel decisions, and motivate people other than some of the disaffected. You cannot attack your allies and expect them to go along with you later. Did he learn nothing at all from Trump's handling of our international allies?

These are the marks of a weak campaign. Yelling, lecturing, insulting and getting already poor people to shell out cash for a pipe dream, and refusing to listen to anyone but himself, are not the signs of strength. They are signs of weakness. The sooner that Biden hits 1991, the better for the country and the planet

fellow dems brings, or if it willfully wants to form a new party and just keep the democratic party name.

Railing about the establishment is nonsensical since the party is made up of such a wide swath of Americans. And not only is it nonsense, Bernie wants to be regarded as a new establishment.

Bernie could cultivate his new base while trying to attract lifetime democrats to his side. But he has chosen a different path. It was a gamble. And, judging by super Tuesday results, it would be a losing proposition to rely on a new Sanders party in order to win up and down the ballot.

and maybe he's running in the wrong primaries. If he wants to run by creating resentment against the Dems and by smearing them, well, there is another party whose rabid electorate feeds on that.
He's approaching 80 years and he hasn't been able to learn the simple lesson of forming coalitions and networks. How is he supposed to get anything done?

so he could say no, and talk about how he turned it down in his next book.

negotiation, flexibility, and ability to work well with others, even with opponents. Bernie can’t play nice. Biden’s themes so much deeper and more expansive than Bernie’s. Bernie leaves out hope.

Kudos for founding a movement, his own, but I doubt his ability to build this coalition he lays claim to—multi-generational , multi-ethnic and certainly can not bring the revolution across the
political spectrum.

That's why I voted for Warren instead of Sanders. I support his policies but not how he attacks the Democrats he NEEDS to win.

And spot on.