I agree.
Thanks for the link.
You’re suggesting that these three attacks on Sanders are intellectually honest?
They’re completely truthful and accurate. That’s a part of Bernie’s past and present.
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Hm. It’s a good question. Susan Colins? She’s being her authentic awful self, right? 
MIke Bloomberg’s billions helped helped elect a lot of moderate Democrats in 2018. The Democrats are going to need some of that money to elect or re-elect more Democrats for that man could just as easily decide to put his money behind some moderate Republicans (if there any) like Susan Collins if the Sanders wing of the party continues to make has candidacy for President very personal.
I’m only aware of one creepy rape fantasy article. But it was super creepy.
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Difficult to say!
Her former boss, who left the Senate to join the Clinton Administration, was a much better Republican, and a far more serious human being, than she ever was.
(Can I write about her in the past tense yet?)
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“Creepy” is subjective and so is “misogynist.”
Not sure that makes them the same thing.
Umm?
You know the comments that I dislike the most are the ones that force me to defend people I really don’t like.
Bloomberg has gone after Sanders pretty personally. He called him a communist. That’s not true.
Kowtowing to temperamental billionaires, desperately hoping for their largesse is a hell of a way to live.
Bloomberg will make his choices as he has always done, which have often been in support of right wing loons, including several I believe even in 2018. Democrats should represent the values of the party and their constituencies.
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I’m not surprised by this response.
Thanks.
Pretty much. Bloomberg cares about one thing: Bloomberg. Yeah, he boosted moderate Dems, but guess who he also boosted: Republicans, as recent as 2018. As Warren said last night, he donated to people like Graham and Brown. If he’s serious about stopping Trump then he’ll donate to those moderate Dems. If he doesn’t, then fuck him
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“Creepy rape fantasy essay” is definitely intellectually honest, which is the standard by which you were proposing to judge the accusation. You can evaluate its creepiness for yourself by scrolling a little way down the page in this story:
Some recent background:
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No, because (alleged) misogyny was key to the accusation.
You have an incredible blind spot to actual reported and documented facts about the dark side of the Bern. It’s that denial that makes folks like you an easy mark for his cult.
Entirely possible: Blind spots are, let’s just say, not uncommon …
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I think some people use creepy a bit to soften the misogyny charge.
Tbh, from following Sanders for a long time, I do think he’s a misogynist. He hasn’t abused women, and that’s a very important distinction. But he definitely doesn’t take women or women’s concerns seriously. He doubts their motives and their methods. He sees them as always being calculating and pretending to be victims for advantage. He has said as much himself.
But hey, that’s the world man. And tho his acolytes don’t think so, he’s definitely of this world.
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This is helpful information. Thank you!
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Fair enough.
You may be right.
It’s also possible that he is more used to a class-based analysis, one that attempts to achieve varieties of equality (gender, “race”) indirectly.
There’s miles of academic literature on the subject. I don’t intend to address it here.
I’m not arguing that Sanders is actually doing this sort of analysis; or even that it could be a useful approach.
Just asking if you think such an approach, if someone were using it, can be described as “misogynistic.”
Come on y’all this comment deserves some hearts!
All the “moderates” on Twitter etc. are incensed Warren didn’t do the job for them! Why couldn’t they manage it themselves? There are 5 of them!
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