Did you miss the contempt he's had for the Democrats through his career? This isn't some secret nobody knows about. It was all over the '16 primaries once he figured out he was going to lose.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-2016-democrats-121181
This is not a man who cares that deeply about the Democratic party or its members.
I bought that up due to responses to my inquiries simply being summed up policy agreement. I'm far from the only person in the Democratic party who was bugged by this, this is not just about me and you this is about millions of people and their reactions to why they vote for politicians they like. It's more complicated than "I like X policy decisions," and that's all they care about.
Why wouldn't I be angry at Bernie for those mistakes? I take sexually harassment and race relations very seasons, and I should hope any candidate running for the Democratic nomination thinks the same. I'm not discussing why his voting bloc is ok with him not being a Democrat, that's a plus in their mind. I was talking about everyone else, and not everyone agrees with that.
There's a wide spectrum of reasons the Dems can do those things and they're not all think "he's great." It's disappointing you're not engaging on the context for how he got these concessions, that any other response is something incomprehensible to believe, or that many people in the party might be angry with him over it.
Maybe? You're framing the Democratic insiders as a group that is of one mind on all things, rather than a group of individuals who might have a bone to pick with Bernie with his behaviour. This ignores the negative context for how he got those seats. It's not like Dems haven't had a problem with him being independent before or since.
Our conversation is built on a disagreement not solely on part identification but loyalty, and Bernie has none for the party.
The two issues are intertwined, as having a strong Democratic party and having entrenched alliances within congress can help politicians with legislation that impacts their constituents.
Madison's long dead, he wouldn't think anything about this. Politics has evolved a lot from their time, as they couldn't predict the future and they're not perfect.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing but that whole thing falls apart without loyalty holding the Democrats part together, both from the insiders and the voting blocs. This is not the sort of fault like I was criticising Bernie for, it's the loyalty aspect. Part of that is his party identification, another is he's not a team player. If all that mattered in politics is policy goals the Democratic party would be less fractured among itself, this ignores how politicians and staff in the party are people. People who have flaws, make mistakes, sometimes they don't get along with each other - leaders who can bind that into a coalition are a powerful force but without loyalty to each other or the party it breaks. This the type of trait which is desirable among various voting blocs of Democrats in their leaders for president, or they'll find themselves with a bad relationship with their allies in congress, like Trump has been.
Bernie only became popular with Democrats after he ran in the Democratic primaries, if that hadn't occurred he'd have remained an obscure Independent politician from Vermont. I would disagree with that argument. Having few allies and not having money on hand are choices he made himself, it's not Hillary's fault he didn't come to the primary on an equal footing.
The context isn't helping him. Bernie's at the top of the campaign pyramid and it was his job to be up to date with how his staff and volunteers were doing, to some extent. Being a leader is a tremendous responsibility and that responsibility includes making sure all his staff feel safe and inclusive. Giving the job to upper management than forgetting about it entirely is bad leadership, no matter how busy he was. Being POTUS is x1000 busier, if he can't properly conduct his business on a simple campaign why should he be the most powerful man on the planet?
It's not mutually exclusive. Dems have certain values, and she is a bad Democrats for the values you laid out.
