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I see the point. I get it now. This was Sander's failing and very and very not cool. Not exactly 'throw under the bus' but what's some well meaning hyperbole between friends.
To be a bit of an apologist I'll just say this: I firmly believe that until we fix the larger issues I listed above that we are handicapped in taking care of the other issues. I think that was what Sanders was saying and certainly what I believe. I've had enough of this gerrymandering, money influence, etc - until that is fixed I despair of getting anything else fixed. I don't think we can give other social issues a fairer shake than the current lip service until we unstrangle the hold gerrymandering and money has on our politics.
It's encouraging that Obama is working on the anti-gerrymandering issue through NDRC, I'm still waiting for Citizens United to get into someone's crosshairs in a meaningful way, although that is likely to be a long expensive state slog ala marriage equity from what I've read.
Also, though I think this was the stupidest manufactured issue of the entire campaign (yes, let's not discuss that he has zero foreign policy experience, let's discuss that it's somehow [I have no idea why] wrong she got paid for giving a speech as a private citizen) the whole thing about Bernie not taking corporate money was a lie.
I mentioned this during the election cycle and was told that it was 'different,' that it wasn't from Goldman Sachs (which just made it seem like the people had only heard that one soundbite), etc.
Bernie took millions in corporate donations, and in SuperPAC money, and in donations we can't track.
See here, oh and here --
When he launched his presidential bid last May, he proclaimed: “Today, we stand here and say loudly and clearly that enough is enough. This great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to a handful of billionaires, their super PACs and their lobbyists.”
It’s a theme Sanders has revisited time and again — on the campaign trail, in advertisements and during debates against front-runner Hillary Clinton.
But unlike President Barack Obama, who refused campaign contributions from registered lobbyists, Sanders’ campaign confirmed it does not ban lobbyists from making contributions — even as Sanders has called on the Democratic Party to maintain a ban, implemented by Obama, on lobbyists giving to the Democratic National Committee.
Lying, hypocritical, out-for-himself asshole.