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Respectfully, Bernie isn't the problem. Literally the last politician you need to worry about. Also I've got op tagged as "posts anti Bernie" so op, think about why you want to drag on the literal only senator that has been arrested for protesting. Why do you ignore people like John fetterman who literally tricked people into thinking he was progoressive and now votes with republicans.
Op. Do. Better.
I disagree. Bernie and Fetterman are the problem. Any "progressive" telling you to vote for a neo-liberal/neo-con candidate, is no progressive. If you falling for the fake narrative we have to stop the Orange Man, because there is always going to be an Orange Man just in a different suit, then YOU are the problem.
Disrespectfully: This is /progressivepolitics not /liberalzionism
Go defend a genocidal Apartheid elsewhere.
Listen man, there are 100 senators. If you wanted to drag on any of them for not being progressive enough, I'm sure you can find something to complain about each of them.
All I'm saying is dragging on the ones who have a history of pushing for civial rights might not be the best choice. The only result you get from this thinking is more capitalist nut jobs.
But maybe you know that and are just being disengenous?
Bernie Sanders has a history advocating for genocide. You are extremely disingenuous.
What Bernie Sanders is doing here is what Chuck Sumer says their job is: keeping the left pro Israel.
He has said many anti Israel things. As the other poster is saying, why go after the farthest left politician and not any of the others? Unless your goal is to discredit the left.
Bernie is a milquetoast centrist. Not a leftist.
Bernie gets flak because he hijacks the progressive movement to justify Apartheid.
But why aren't you attacking other politicians who are worse, according to your statement?
How about Lindsey Graham? You got anything to say about him? Chuck Schumer seems to check all your boxes but you're still going on about Bernie.
Is Lindsey Graham poisoning the well of the progressive movement?
Bernie can get his credit where it is due. And he will get his criticism where it is due.
You seem like the type that won't be happy until a politician does specifically, exactly what YOU want them to do and anything short of that is failure.
Which is one of the big reasons for how we got in this mess in the first place.
Sanders was never on the right side of war. When he ran, both times, he never really wanted to address anything regarding military, war...and he was always a loyal Zionist. Now that they are committing genocide(s,) he is lightened up his loyalty, I assume, mostly because of pressure. Until he tells the truth, the whole truth, he is just another neo-liberal dressing up as a progressive.
I'll help mr sanders! G - E - N - O - C - I - D - E
I don't think Sanders was ever on the right side, it has been getting clearer recently that he was nothing more than a fake!
One of the few decent politicians left, who has stood up for minorities since before it was trendy, and pushed to block US military funding to Israel, didn't use the exact word you wanted him to.
Shame! Shame on him!
The word in this instance is "Israel" instead of "Netanyahu".
Why does that matter, for this particular message? Netanyahu is making decisions on behalf of Israel, no?
No because the entire Israeli government is responsible. Bernie tried to shove all the blame on Netanyahu to protect the settler colony from criticism.
Netanyahu is not special. He represents everything Israel always has been.
So it's not the leader of the government's fault, but it is the government's fault?
Okay troll.
Do you think Nazi Germany was okay but only Adolf Hitler was the problem?