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In reply to the discussion: Bernie is not even a Democrat, so why is he ripping our party apart? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)In 2018, the senate seats are stacked against us -- too many iffy Dem seats need protecting, too few weak Repub seats open to take over. And both the right and some working though the Sanders left, and of course Russia, are hitting repeal-and-replace of the ACA as a wedge issue to split the Democratic Party. I was relieved that Sanders defended the ACA in the "debate" as a bathwater that shouldn't be thrown out, but it's little, late and proven changeable. His supporters have become as committed to repeal and replace as the far right, and healthcare has, shockingly, become a wedge issue for some instead of a uniting principle.
I do absolutely disagree with the OP that Sanders is actually tearing apart the party. That is a great media-created exaggeration. The more they can whomp up fake attention-grabbing dramatizations, the higher their profits. In the process of a long history of these destructive behaviors, media greed for profits has undoubtedly become the largest single factor in the delusion of our electoral groups and the degradation of our governments.