People who are not big Bernie fans - where does he lose you?
I consider myself closer to a Centrist, but almost every time he says something, I agree with it.
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Why isn't he a Democrat? Why does he think he can criticize us?
Why does he think he should be leading us?
It's not his policies, which I think are fine. But I won't vote for him.
Yes most of his ideas are Democratic Party ideas championed by generations. And some of those were called Socialist Party ideas before they became identified as Democratic Party ideas. Ideas stand on their own without party labels, but they do not take root and flourish without constant promotion. Everything that Biden embraces, that Obama embraced, that Hillary and Kerry and Gore embraced have roots that go back to the likes of Thomas Paine, and others even earlier. Like the original Diggers in England for example. And for just as many centuries those ideas have attracted powerful enemies. It's a continuing struggle.
There's that expression, "there's nothing new under the sun." There's another one, "out of sight out of mind." When someone like Bernie Sanders makes it central to his politics to advocate for all workers receiving at least a living wage, he's not the first to do so, not by several centuries. Bernie's greatest strength is as a tireless advocate. One doesn't have to be the first or only person advocating for something in order for that advocacy to be important, and in some cases even critical. Bernie wasn't the first or only person advocating for a $15 minimum wage, or for free public college tuition, or for quality healthcare as a human right and not a privileged, or for supporting Organized Labor, or for a Social Security system robust enough to keep Seniors out of grinding poverty, or for any number of other progressive ideas championed by generations of Democrats, as you say. He however has been a steadfast strong advocate of such ideas, even when it was more in vogue to proclaim that "the era of Big Government is over." Today he is widely recognized as one of the leading advocates for such ideas, whose arguments in favor of them are often heard and/or read by tens of millions.
Heck, I often make very similar arguments myself, and mine are occasionally read by hundreds 
I register as a Democrat, but it seems he and I often carry very similar banners, it's just that Bernie's is a wee bit more visible than mine.
... Bernie is a good guy. But, since you asked... I know he supported Hillary Clinton, but there seems to be some reluctance on his part. It should have been sooner, and the last time he ran, I thought it would have been much smarter to praise her in every speech. He already had the Bernie voters - he needed the Hillary voters.
... Next, there was Elizabeth Warren. Again, there seemed to be something off-kilter there... there was again, a problem. It really showed at one of the debates ending. Probably, Bernie is not genuinely friendly with these women, but I'm sure they all respect each other. I hoped that would show more... and it may, still...
… who really has little if any grasp of how women’s needs differ from men’s.
( * 1965? Maybe a lot earlier.)
In addition, he attracted the Bernie Bros, who were very misogynistic and dismissive of women ( I’m not forgiving their behavior toward Dolores Huerta or toward Hillary Clinton). He attracted the Bros — and neither repudiated them nor apologized for them.
Then there’s his opinion of who is at fault for everything not being a whole lot better: the Democrats. Democratic politicians and the Party are his go-to whipping boy year after year after year.
Thank you for asking, though. 
....beyond a slogan.
"Medicare for All" was originally the idea of a republican Senator from New York, Jacob Javits, in 1970. But republican Javits in the 1970s would be a left-leaning Democrat in the 21st century.
the 1% and other shadowy groups Democrats were beholden to and had to do everything they said and be just like Republicans.
Back then it was possible for a wealthy person to be liberal. Something happened, maybe when they became the "donor class," that made it impossible to be rich and progressive, so donations to Democrats had to be to make them do diabolical Republican neoliberal things bad for the working class.
Also, it became trendy to call Democrats corrupt if people working in finance donated money. We heard Wall Street Wall Street Goldman Sachs Wall Street a million times. Anyone working for corporations, same thing. Using campaign contributions to, like, pay for things was out of the question, had to go straight into Democrats pockets as they nibbled canapés and sipped champagne in smoke-filled back rooms with oligarchs and wealthy donors, giggling as they plot to rig elections and stop, at any cost, anything progressive to help the working class.
the despicable, anti-democratic behaviors of the Sanders delegates. At least the rest of his hooligan populists were outside. But, in spite of them, she and you were part of something magnificent and aspiring.
Btw, there's new, very well regarded research confirming that LW authoritarianism is real and bears strong resemblances to RW, and more coming. That may explain a lot of about Sanders' 'lock her up!' crowd, as well as those who always seem committed to their leader over democratic ideals.
Bet the conversation around your table when you get together is fun.
As for the unmasked delegates, hope they’re very angry at that poor tennis player and how unfairly he was treated.
We’re out in the car, heading back to the land of no Internet. Have a great day. Can you email her
