what does bernie mean when

[DesertFlower]

he says "the democratic party has to open its doors to others"? is he talking about opening the primaries to non democratic voters?

[BlueMTexpat]

1. IMO, that's exactly what

he means.

He doesn't understand the first thing about belonging to a political party.

[DesertFlower]

2. it doesn't make any sense to me. just register

as a dem (if that's what you are). if you're not a dem then shut the hell up.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Exactly.

But they want to have their cake (vote for Bernie in the Dem primary) and eat it too (continue bashing Dems).

They are not Dems and have no intention of ever becoming Dems. They are nihilists.

[underthematrix]

3. it's code for working class whites. After the passage of the Civil and Voting Rights

Acts were passed in 1964, there was a mass exit of whites from the Democratic Party, which was the original home of the KLANNIES. Sen. Bryd was a Democrat and member of the KLAN. He eventually disowned the KLAN.

Bernie is talking about bringing the offspring of these people back into the fold. These are the people who would have benefited from the American Jobs Act a massive infrastructure that would educate, train and place workers both unemployed and displaced. The GOP refused to pass the Obama bill for obvious reasons.

I think both Bernie and HRC will take care of the white working class something I would definitely like to see happen. So many of them feel left out and left behind.

[savalez]

5. He thinks

he'll get more votes if Republicans are able to infiltrate the Democratic primary by voting for our candidate.

Also, it's a talking point to keep the dumbest of his followers believing he's been cheated.

[Jamaal510]

6. Many who

support him interpret that to mean that the party has been co-opted by the rich and doesn't represent working class interests anymore, but what he more likely means is what you said: opening our stuff up to non-Democrats (which is dumb). Why should we have all these open primaries and let non-Dems decide who our nominee is when Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, etc. also have closed primaries? If anything, all of our primaries should be closed.

[TwilightZone]

7. Yes, because he and his supporters think that independents are a monolithic voting bloc and they're

all a bunch of ultra-liberals. So, more of that = more votes for Bernie.

The problem is: they're completely wrong on every aspect.

[DesertFlower]

8. my friend is an independent but he

leans more toward the right. he's voted clinton bush, obama. he's not happy with obama and will not vote for clinton or trump. he'll probably right kasich in. he'd never vote for bernie -- thinks he's nuts.

[TwilightZone]

10. Roughly one-third of independents lean right.

And Sanders fans think he'd get them all.

Sure, they're going to all vote for a democratic socialist. To righties, that's like two dirty words in one. haha

[BlueCaliDem]

9. Yep. Which, I'm assuming here, rat-breeding Republican trolls, too. Yeah, that would help Democrats.

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