Sanders Tells Progressives to Abandon the Democrats

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193. "Contempt"?? Oh good grief! Spare me! It's absurd characterize it that way... as if it's "personal" *

* and that simply by being "virtuous" or simply by "fighting" hard enough we can "evolve" and overcome. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but in the real world, we have a de facto two-party system.

In national elections, the winner will be EITHER at Democrat or a Republican. This is guaranteed by the Electoral College process. If a "third party" or "independent" candidate gained enough votes to deny the Republican or Democratic candidates the required 270 votes, then it will go to the House. I can guarantee you that they will NOT choose the third-party or independent candidate.

Why do you perceive my reality-based words as little more than "contempt" for an "old man"?

Elsewhere (in this thread or perhaps another similar topic) there was someone who tried to boil it down to a sarcastic summary of "Oh, I see, party over country, eh?" And that would be wrong too. Again, in a two-party system... it is indeed the DEMOCRATIC PARTY that must be strong enough to defeat the GOP. Bernie's idea of fracturing and dividing and marginalizing and diminishing the importance and unity of the Democratic party is FUCKING DANGEROUS.

He needs to stop. What I'm expressing here has nothing to do with "contempt for an old man" (as you suggested) but instead is about what a dumb and dangerous idea it is. I live in a reality-based world and the notion that a divided and watered-down Democratic party will be able to defeat the GOP is pure fantasy.