Miggie Warms
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

I was willing to let the writer’s not knowing the difference between “waive” and “wave” go, feeling safe in the assumption that she did not really intend to cut off her hands or cause them to become paralyzed or otherwise unusable. However, when she made the erroneous statement that Sanders “lists himself as a ‘Socialist Democrat’,” I quickly lost interest in reading the remainder of the article, since I know (and double checked by googling) that Sanders refers to himself as a Democratic Socialist. If you think that those are the same thing (or if you feel a strong impulse to “waive” your hands,) you, too, can google “Social Democrat v. Democratic Socialist” as I did. Oh, wait — I’ll save you the trouble:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-Democratic-Socialist-and-a-Social-Democrat
The few assertions through which I managed to wade in this article reflect a corresponding lack of logic. For example, the writer acknowledges that Sanders has proposed lots of progressive legislation, but faults him for failing to pass much (or any) of it, then quotes a Politico article that states “Sanders had big ideas but little impact on Capitol Hill. Democrats who worked with the Vermont senator say he contributed to the debate, but rarely forged actual legislation or left a significant imprint on it.” So, which is it? Did he write a lot of legislation and propose it, or not? What was not “actual” about the legislation he proposed? Is there a difference between writing and proposing legislation and “forging” it?
And what’s with the use of single quotation marks in some places and double quotation marks in others (and I do not mean for quotes-within-quotes) throughout this lengthy article?
I voted for Sanders in the primary and voted for Clinton in the general. Sanders encouraged his supporters to vote for Clinton in the general election, but refused to “dictate” that suggestion as an instruction (as if he had that power, anyway.) It is regrettable that not all Sanders supporters voted for Clinton in the general election, but it has been fairly demonstrated that those votes would not have changed the electoral college outcome. It is time to stop trashing Bernie Sanders for having dared to buck the Democratic Party establishment. Our energy should be spent in fighting the Republican Congress and the Trump administration. Leave the “dead horse” election of 2016 alone (except for proposals to abolish the electoral college.)

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