This article is not new. It dates back to the end of March. In light of this past weekend in Charlottesville, it merits another look. A pro-Bernie faction continues its attempts to muscle into leadership roles in the Democratic party while Sanders himself remains stubbornly an Independent (which is fine with us since we do not want him in the party). They disparage true Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and Jon Ossoff and parrot Bernie’s inflammatory and untrue words, believe propaganda generated abroad, and threaten the very breadth of the party with extreme policy demands. (Bold emphasis below is mine.)
Sanders defends Trump voters: I don’t think they’re racists, sexists or homophobes
By Brooke Seipel – 03/31/17 09:44 PM EDTVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on Friday defended voters of President Trump, saying that the election was Democrats’ to lose and that the party needs to better represent the working-class voters who supported Trump and other GOP lawmakers
“Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don’t agree, because I’ve been there. Let me tell you something else some of you might not agree with, it wasn’t that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election,” Sanders said while speaking at an Our Revolution rally in Boston with fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Sanders went on to say that a “fundamental restructuring of the Democratic party” was needed to win future elections and that problems with party’s current setup is why many were quick to support Trump in the election, not because of some of the rhetoric on the campaign trail.
On the trail, Hillary Clinton was fond of quoting Maya Angelou: “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” Then, she was applying that maxim to Trump.
In March, Bernie told us who he is. I missed this article the first time around, but we should look at it now and understand who Bernie is.
Over the past several days, Trump supporters have claimed on social media as well as IRL face to face with Trump protestors that they support Trump but are not racists or Nazis. The reply from the Resistance has been “Yes, you are.”
In March, Bernie said: “Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don’t agree, because I’ve been there.” Been where? He neglected to clarify that. We can agree that there are probably people who voted for Trump who are not among those supporting him at his recent rallies and who would not participate in Nazi/KKK marches, but by not condemning those folks, their support is implicit. Bernie prefers to cut them slack rather than hold their feet to the fire.
As you see, he then went on to blame us for losing an election that was phenomenally well-supported, well-run, and ran the best-prepared, most thoroughly experienced candidate any of us had ever seen in our lives. I take exception to Bernie’s words! Not true!
A “perfect storm,” as Hillary has termed it, of influences and actions robbed the party of a victory and the country of the president we deserved.
Discord is a loaded term with a negative valence. We feel uncomfortable when it intrudes upon what we consider the normal flow of life. On the other hand, we live in a democracy and are accustomed to dealing with the messiness of it – including the inevitable discord and necessary compromise.
Accord, on the other hand has a positive valence. By trying to cozy up to the “populist” Trump supporters, Bernie has told us who he is. His “accord” with the Trump folks, however, is less than comforting or comfortable. He has told us who he is. We should believe him. He and his ilk have no place in our diverse party. Period.
Here’s Hillary. We are #StillWithHer.
Here is the text of her speech connecting Donald Trump to the alt-right.
Hillary Clinton in Reno
August 25, 2016
Here is her “deplorables” remark in context.
Statement from Hillary Clinton
September 10, 2016
I cannot suppress this addition.
Bernie Sanders Deletes Numerous Tweets That Blamed Trump for Charlottesville Violence
I come from a blue collar family – not elitist by any standard. My parents worked together in an aircraft plant until I was born. They scraped to send my sister and me to Catholic schools so, not by choice, I did study Latin.
“Alea jacta est.”
Loose translation: “If you are prominent in some way, your first tweet has been screen-saved by somebody.”
Latin is so succinct!
Still4Hill 
During the primary, Bernie Sanders was much more critical of Hillary than he ever has been of Trump. The same is true of some of his most prominent supporters. That’s just a fact. We can all make of it what we will. I choose to use it to reject Bernie Sanders and his message in total. That some in party leadership positions continue to pander to BS is very distressing to me. If this tragic weekend proved anything, it proved that it was Hillary, and Hillary alone, who had the right message in standing up for Democratic party values and democratic values. I will always be proud of that. Harry Truman once said he would rather be right than be president. I bet Hillary agrees.
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Brassy Rebel,
Great post! I think it’s time to shine the light on BS and who he really is. When you step back and take a close look at his supporters, they sounded and acted a lot like the trump supporters towards those of us who supported Hillary. The dems let him run as a dem and then he proceeded to attack Hillary with the same vitriol as trump and the dems sat on their hands.
The men of the democratic showed themselves to be every bit as misogynistic as the republicans. You’re right. it was Hillary who had the right message, had real plans with real solutions; always tried to unite all of America with her message and not just her supporters; she acted and comported herself like a president and all we got from trump and sanders were a couple of blow hards yet, the media treated them with respect and attacked her.
Hillary was right and I am proud that I supported her and still do. I just can’t get over what we lost and what could have been.
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Thank you, wynne05. We should always wear our support for Hillary as a badge of honor. Remember she was the only one who promised to be the president of EVERYONE, even those who didn’t vote for her. The others never understood the importance of that.
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This may explain a lot about trump’s resistance in calling out and condemning the Nazi/White Supremacists/KKK hate groups… his father, Fred Trump, was arrested in 1927 for failing to disperse in the same kind of rally. This link is from the Huffington Post and Rachel Maddow reported on it last night on her show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/our-commander-in-chief-and-the-kkk_us_59906c7fe4b063e2ae05808e
Clearly, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree and shows who trump really is and has always been. I just wish that the Huffington Post and all of the other news outlets had vetted trump back during the campaign instead of focusing almost exclusively on attacking Hillary about her e-mails and for her not smiling enough. History might have been very different and our country in a much better place if they had paid more attention to trump, the man, rather than engaging in unfettored sexist attacks against Hillary (and that means you too, Bernie!).
Frankly, it’s long past time that we begin calling out the other “ism” which is just as egregious as racism. Women of all colors and backgrounds have much to offer our society and they have been hamstrung just like the people of color have been by this ongoing and relentless bias that has a strangle hold on those men in positions of power in politics, business, technology, medicine, religion and just about every other field you can think of and who cannot seem to acknowledge that it is WRONG. Just like people of color, women are humans too and should not be disregarded, nor treated with disrespect nor be viewed as objects to be used for the sole purpose of supporting and servicing men and when they do not oblige by “staying home and bake cookies and have teas”, pull out all the stops to destroy them as they have tried to do with Hillary. But, God Bless her, she is still standing!
What don’t they get about “women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights”?
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