Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: OMG, he is scolding voters and saying their votes are wrong [View all]Aquaria
(1,076 posts)I must have imagined all of this from his prior run:
Women campaign works paid less, treated worse, for which he apologized--but took it back with an excuse of being so busy during the campaign, for which he did ZERO, until the NYT called him out on it. In 2019:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-sexism.html
Calling Hillary's criticism of his gun-control stances, "shouting," which is rich coming from a putz whose vocal tone always seems set at pissed-off:
https://www.npr.org/2015/11/01/453663625/is-it-fair-to-accuse-bernie-sanders-of-sexism
Or how about this demeaning remark made by his campaign--with nary an apology from BS--about Hillary's "role" in the future if BS (kill me now) got elected, that she might--MIGHT--make a good VP, I guess if she were a good girl, shut up and stepped aside for the "good" of white male privilege:
Sexism charges came up again when Sanders' campaign director said, when asked if they would consider Hillary Clinton for vice president: "Look, she'd make a great vice president. We're willing to give her more credit than Obama did. We're willing to consider her for vice president. We'll give her serious consideration. We'll even interview her."
Gee, how very fucking nice. They'd "even" interview her! The WOMAN who was kicking his ass all over the place in the primaries.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/03/opinions/kohn-bernie-sanders-sexism/index.html
Or how about this sneaky sexist jab at Hillary in April of 2016:
When CNNs Jake Tapper asked him about the increasingly aggressive rhetoric between Sanders and Hillary Clinton, Weaver averred that his campaign was prepared to play hardball. He then sounded a warning to the former secretary of State and her supporters, suggesting that they not get too critical of Sanders or his supporters. Dont destroy the Democratic Party to satisfy the secretarys ambitions to become president of the United States, Weaver said.
It was a small comment, in every sense. A throwaway bit of nastiness coming from a campaign manager in the late stages of a long and hotly contested primary battle. But the line, which overtly cast Clintons political ambition as a destructive force and framed her famous drive and tenacity as unappealing, malevolent traits, played on long-standing assumptions about how ambition a quality that is required for powerful men and admired in them looks far less attractive on their female counterparts, and especially on their female competitors.
Weavers language made explicit a message that has, in more inchoate form, been churning through the Sanders campaigns messaging in recent weeks. As Sanderss staffers spin the story of how they got to this point in the race with a candidate whose success has been unexpected and thrilling, especially with young Democrats and independents, but who has failed to win over voters of color and older voters, and remains badly behind his tough opponent by nearly every metric they seem to have been working on a new framing of Hillary, one that relies on old biases about how we prefer women to conduct themselves and how little we like those who flout those preferences.
https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-tries-too-hard-ambitious.html
Or how about this tone-deaf-beyond-belief response to a young Hispanic woman aspiring to public service:
Bernie Sanders says that just being a woman isn't enough to get you elected.
Sanders was speaking to supporters in Boston Sunday when he was asked how a woman could become the second Latina senator in history.
"It's not good enough for somebody to say 'hey I'm a Latina vote for me' that is not good enough. I have to know whether that Latina is going to stand up with the working class of this country and is going to take on big money interests," Sanders said.
"It is not good enough for somebody to say, 'I'm a woman, vote for me.' No That is not good enough," the Vermont senator continued. "What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industries."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/21/sanders-identity-politics/94221972/
And let's not forget the thousands of times he screeched about "identity politics," which has always been code for, "You women and minorities need to shut up--JUST SHUT UP--and let us hoary white men decide what's best for you."
But if you want an example of him doing it, then here's a double-down on the filth that spewed out of his stupid piehole to that young Latina:
In November 2016, after Donald Trump was elected president, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont who lost the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton predicted that Democrats were headed for some soul-searching. "One of the struggles that youre going to be seeing in the Democratic Party is whether we go beyond identity politics, Sanders said. It is not good enough for someone to say, 'I'm a woman! Vote for me! No, that's not good enough.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/04/identity-politics-trump-julian-castro-stacey-abrams-beto-orourke-column/2733935002/
There are more examples of him blathering this bigoted crap. MUCH MORE.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden