NOTE, this is NOT from Bernie but from zealots who want Bernie to start his own party

[still_one]

"Supporters want Bernie Sanders to start his own party"

"February 10, 2017
Juliana Rose Pignataro
Posted with permission from International Business Times
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Bernie Sanders may have lost the Democratic presidential nomination last year, but it appears he hasn’t lost the ardent support of his fan base. Some people who were “feeling the Bern,” including members of the Vermont senator’s campaign staff, certain delegates and a group of volunteers began a campaign Thursday for Sanders to spearhead his own political party.

“Draft Bernie for a People’s Party” is aimed at transforming Sanders’ amorphous, widespread support base into a new, concrete political party. The proposed party said it intends to mobilize opposition to President Donald Trump.

“This party will offer new progressive electoral choices and strive to enact the people-first platform that so many supported during the Sanders campaign,” the website reads.

Sanders’ presidential campaign catalyzed a movement, and there’s evidence that many voters became disillusioned with the Democratic party after it threw its support behind Hillary Clinton as the nominee instead of Sanders. Fourteen million voters changed their affiliation from Democrat to independent in the wake of the election, according to a Gallup poll. The new party will attempt to gather those voters into a “permanent working class party.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/supporters-want-bernie-sanders-to-start-his-own-party/

IBT has an agenda, and most of their stories were anti-Hillary during the campaign, however, perhaps it is even more nefarious than just simple bias:

"Relationship to "The Community"[edit]
The connection of "The Community," a Christian sect led by a "charismatic Korean pastor named David Jang" with IBT is disputed: IBT states that many reports about connections with the Community are false or exaggerated.[4]

Co-owners Johnathan Davis and Etienne Uzac both have ties to Olivet University, an evangelical school founded by David Jang. Graduates of Olivet have been hired to work at IBT Media in many areas; IBT Media has donated money to Olivet. Davis is a former teacher of journalism at Olivet; Davis' wife is the university's president. Uzac has been on Olivet's board of trustees; Uzac's wife has been the press secretary for the World Evangelical Alliance, which includes Olivet as a member. Davis has personally endorsed the "ex-gay" view that homosexuality can be a result of sexually abuse as children, and can be cured by therapy to make them heterosexual. Davis states that his work is separate from his faith, and has declined to elaborate on his religious views on homosexuality, stating that it "I'm not sure how it's relevant. People believe all sorts of weird things. But from a professional capacity, it's unrelated."[13]

Christianity Today claimed in 2012 that it obtained an email in which Davis stated that he could not join a certain Jang-affiliated organization because his "commission is inherently covert". Davis denied the claim.[13] According to Business Insider, there are signs that Jang's concept of journalism involves infusing the "Gospel message" into media."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Times

[HassleCat]

1. Too many weirdo types.

A progressive third party would have to be built from a progressive grassroots effort. This appears to use Sanders as a cult figure to recruit all sorts of disaffected voters, including some genuine nut jobs. This will sputter and fail pretty quickly. Sanders will not endorse it, and that will cause it to lose steam rapidly.

[still_one]

4. Exactly

[Glamrock]

2. Yeah, no.

Not a good idea. And I'm a Bernie supporter.

[still_one]

3. Yup. Bernie recognized that from the beginning. We need to do this together, and no doubt there

will be some animated discussions,

[Iggo]

5. Keep fighting that primary everybody! (n/t)