Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. I want to be clear why I have been raging at Sanders supporters like @cenkuygur who have been ranting about "corporate dems" and "Biden can't win" etc.

If Bernie wins the nomination, I will vote for him. Or Biden. Hell, or Stein. Or a cat.

I recognize the threat to the...

2...world if Trump wins reelection. I believe that the USA will never recover.

But Bernie supporters don't say "Here is why to vote for Bernie." They say "Biden is scum, he won't win, I declare it." They dont say they will vote for the nominee, whoever that is. What they ARE...

3... saying is this: They believe Bernie voters won't vote for Biden. They believe his supporters are such self-centered narcissists that they will sit out - or "protest" vote - because they don't give a damn about families torn apart, millions losing insurance, environmental...

4...devastation, climate change that will kill untold millions, a man who views hurricanes and epidemics as being all about him, an explosion of debt from tax cuts that will lead GOP to rampage cut entitlements, and on and on and on. They don't CARE about this.

Moreover....

5...by engaging in their emotional blackmail - "vote how i want or we're going to work hard to keep families being torn apart, for climate change etc" - people spewing this "Biden can't win, establishment, corporate dems etc" like @cenkuygur are showing that THEY don't care....

6...about others, they too are narcissists and self-centered bastards who spend more time tearing down people who could defeat trump and those who want to defeat him instead of trump himself. They can't just support Bernie - they have to tear down anyone who disagrees, the...

7...media, other voters, other candidates. People like @cenkuygur easily talk about the Trump cult, while in their sneering sense of superiority, don't understand that THEY are in a cult too. Cults know the future. Cults cannot tolerate contradiction. Cults attack others.....

8...cults act on behalf of the cult, not the community. What is it that is so great about Bernie that these people see, that makes it worth them putting a gun to the head of kids in cages and saying "Do what I want or I put a bullet in this kid's brain."

I have tried not to...

9...face the conclusion of what this is really about - I certainly tried in 2016 - but I no longer have doubt. People like @cenkuygur want stuff for themselves. They want things for college kids, not for public schools. They want debt relief for college graduates not...

10...for middle-to-lower middle class people who are overwhelmed by their mortgage debt. They want free insurance - even if that means keeping lower middle class who would benefit from public option off of the roles of insurance. (While simultaneously saying they are unwilling...

11...to pay much in higher taxes for MfA. No, the college graduates get free stuff, other people pay.) I care about others. I care about the lower middle class, the poor. I have family that are truck drivers and electricians and plumbers and landscapers. None of them wanted...

12...to go to college. They would not be the beneficiaries of the vast majority of what Bernie argues for. But they sure wanted better public schools - the very thing that Bernie's supporters NEVER mention.

I care about the African American community - the people Bernie...

13...and his supporters ignore by saying "You will benefit from what we want" - and then react in outrage that failing to reach out to those communities, to listen. to consider *those communities interests* instead of their own results in them voting for other candidates.....

14...these mostly white, mostly young, mostly upper middle to upper class, rage that the rest of the world has different interests.

Now, do I believe that kids need serious debt relief? Yes. Do I believe we need to massively cut college costs for the less fortunate? Yes.....

15...do I believe we should greatly expand scholarships? Yes. Do I believe - as Bernie says - that even billionaires should benefit from his programs, that the kids of my family members who are truck drivers and electricians etc. should attend crummy public schools so that the..

16...@cenkuygur and their kind get to send their kids to college for free? No. Benefits should focus on the people who are most suffering - and the benefits should be what THEY need, based on what THEY say, not based on what Bernie supporters say they should want.

So....

17...recognize - the Bernie folks who say "Blue no matter who" are good people, they care about others, they care about this country, and I respect them. The ones that say "Bernie or bust, corporate dems, Biden can't win, i am not *inspired*" are no different than....

18...self-centered GOPrs who only want for themselves.

So when these people blackmail with their threat not to vote, always repeat: "I wont give you what you want just because you put a gun to a child's head. If you dont care about the suffering of others, go fuck yourself."