Sanders is willing to sacrifice growth for the sake of redistribution.

[DanTex]

40. I don't buy the "both sides" thing in this case. There are a lot of asymmetries.

For example, I challenge you to find any highly-recced thread saying something comparable to Hillary committed a felony. Or, more generally, anything comparable to the glee expressed by Hillary bashers about the email thing (which by the way is a GOP witch hunt).

Or, look at the difference between when a union endorses Hillary versus Bernie. When it's Hillary, there are all sorts of angry people saying that somehow the fix is in and this is a betrayal and blah blah blah. When it's Bernie, Hillary supporters are by and large, meh, OK, so he got a union endorsement. It's to be expected, both of them are strong on labor, so both are going to get endorsements.

There just isn't stuff like this going the other way. Some people claim that Hillary supporters have called Bernie "racist" but of course this is a lie. Hillary gets called all sorts of names. The worst Bernie gets is "socialist" and that's because he has said "I'm a socialist".

On DU, there are a lot of Hillary bashers. It's just a fact. As far as the "cultist" thing, I see very few people who support Hillary as some kind of idol worship. Speaking for myself, I support her for pragmatic reasons, and I think a lot of people in the Hillary camp are like that.