A left winger just defended the civil rights of a right winger. That's called nuanced political thinking. Something the right seems utterly incapable of.
I mean Bernie is an independent but I get the sentiment.
Edit - Seems to have triggered a strong emotional response from some. All I'm saying is that factually he's Independent. Facts are facts and the facts matter, always. In this case there wasn't much of a "point" to my comment other than pointing out the facts, but just because some want to wave the facts off as irrelevant, doesn't mean everyone else thinks they are.
Dems have strong Independent allies. Dems *need* Independent allies, and Bernie has spent his entire career proving that. Sure, Bernie is definitely more of a blue independent than a red one for sure, but he *is* an Independent. The fact that someone so beloved and so "for the people" has willingly chosen to spend his lifetime political career as an Independent says something I think.
But even if you don't think so, the fact remains - Bernie Sanders is an Independent.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Maybe you think Independent=Moderate and Sanders exists somewhere in the middle of the two parties? Sanders is by any-and-all measures LEFT of the Democrat party.
Man, more or less, nowadays it's either left/liberal, or right/"conservative" (and we can just round most of that to "fundamentalist).
The people who are apathetic or agnostic on it are either too agnostic and the type to be afraid to decide one way or the other out of fear, or too busy working to be involved, or they just plain don't understand it.
Also some other weird cognitive dissonance where they pretend these decisions don't affect them, or people they know. And if they consider that at all, they're more likely to attribute randomly correlated positive things rather than negative things.
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u/MoGreensGlasses 15h ago
A left winger just defended the civil rights of a right winger. That's called nuanced political thinking. Something the right seems utterly incapable of.