He used this election run as a platform to get his agenda out to the masses. Nothing more, nothing less.
He knew he didn't have a chance to win. He wanted to get voters to think about his ideas and proposals, but he wasn't trying to win an election.
I disagree, Bernie thought he had a chance to win, which is why he walked on eggshells and tried to ingratiate himself with the party while also trying to keep the energy of the people behind him.
You can't call for a revolution, political or otherwise, get people riled up and then tell them not to revolt. Because unlike a lot of these people's wishful thinking..."Bernie Bro's" are not a cult, now these blue no matter who democrats on the other hand...
The problem with him running is the people that stood by him and supported him were in it to win it. They were passionate and stuck with him to the end.
Now he wants them to support the very person they were throwing shots at. A candidate who is opposite. Nothing in common. All for the sake of following party lines.
All Bernie Sanders did by running was cause further divide.
The issue is, Bernie himself said in the 80's that the democratic party was corrupt and couldn't be reformed toward a progressive agenda, he just proved himself right TWICE. People needed to see that, people really needed to know what time it REALLY is with these people and what their true motivations are. His run helped push the agenda and also exposed a ton...the issue is, now that it's NOT HIM for real, it's on US, as it should be to make sure that we don't spend another 40 years complaining about the same shyt he has.
Whatever divide you see has ALWAYS been there, what Bernie did was give people permission to ask for more than they thought they could. The fact that it was enough people in agreement to make Bernie a threat means that if these people...unlike the 'progressives' and leftists groups of yesteryear refuse to fold into the democratic party without demands being met, we can CREATE a place to go, and break this corporate dictatorship being sold to us as a democracy.
It was never meant to be like this.
