So he is complaining because the Democratic party was quick to get behind the Democratic nominee who barely lost the primary the last time she ran?
So essentially Sanders is pissed that Hillary wrote a book giving him some of the blame for her loss, even though his book is ALL about blaming her and the Democratic party for his.
And that crap about him having a better chance up against Trump is pure bullshit.
Bernie was barely known in many places throughout the country, and this was an election where marquee names played a huge part in attracting votes.
That's like suggesting a poodle would have a better chance in a fight against Godzilla than King Kong.
And this book kerfuffle is not the only place where Sanders is running a cheese grater across Democratic nerves.
Courtesy of
Politico:
Prominent Democrats are increasingly riled by attacks from Bernie Sanders' supporters, whose demands for ideological purity are hurting the party ahead of the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election, they say.
But it’s not just the outside agitators that Democratic lawmakers, operatives and activists are annoyed with: They’re tired of what they see as the Vermont senator’s hesitance to confront his own backers, either in public or through back channels.
Tensions boiled over recently when a handful of Sanders loyalists bashed freshman Sen. Kamala Harris — a rising star in the party and potential 2020 hopeful — as an establishment tool. Democrats were also rankled that other prominent Sanders allies said support for single-payer health care should be a litmus test for candidates.
In response, Democratic senators and outside groups have begun telling Sanders and friendly intermediaries that if he wants to be a leading figure for Democrats ahead of 2020’s presidential election, he needs to get his supporters in line — or at least publicly disavow their more incendiary statements.
The confrontations, they insist, threaten party unity ahead of a critical midterm election cycle, when Democrats have a shot at winning the House and several governor’s offices.
“The Democratic Party has treated Sen. Sanders exceptionally well. We collectively let him run in our primaries when he declared he wasn’t a Democrat — I count that as a great favor, and an opportunity almost no one else has ever received,” said former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, who has called for the independent Sanders to formally join the party.
That last part is important to keep in mind. The Democrats allowed Sanders to run, and while inside their house he got up to all kinds of mischief and even caused some long lasting damage.
Sanders and his supporters were key to the Russian's ability to damage Hillary's reputation as they provided legitimacy to some of the most outlandish allegations made against her by retweeting them and posting them on their Facebook pages.
If Sanders had run as an Independent, and his supporters had remained on the outside of both major parties, the impact of what they promoted on social media would have been essentially innocuous.
But once they were making those allegations from what appeared to be the inside of the Democratic party, the damage was much more severe.
And it STILL is. Not so much to Hillary, but to up and coming Democratic stars like Kamala Harris who are still finding their way and can be fatally damaged by negative attacks from those who demand the kind of purity which is ultimately political suicide in a general election.
We have to face facts that a number of those who supported Sanders in the 2016 primaries, are not really Democrats, and have no intention of ever becoming Democrats.
They wanted to change the status quo, start throwing the furniture out of the windows, and undermine the whole process which they essentially view as corrupt.
Trying to woo them is a total waste of time and energy.
What we need to do instead is to remember who we are as Democrats, find ourselves some good talented candidates, and then circle the wagons around them for the battle that looms ahead.
If we do a good job of defining who we are, and what we represent, those Sanders supporters may find that they have a whole lot more in common with those of us on the Democratic side of the aisle than Donald Trump or even a Jill Stein.
