Progressives (Liberals)

While the news media has been focused on the “spat” between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, something much more serious has been taking place between the Sanders campaign and Joe Biden. Not to sugarcoat it: The Sanders campaign has flat-out lied about things Biden said in 2018 about Social Security, and it has refused to admit the falsehood.

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There has always been an ugly edge to some of Sanders’s support, a faction of followers who denounce anyone raising questions about his positions — even Warren! — as a corrupt capitalist shill.

Sen. Bernie Sanders apologized to Joe Biden late Monday for an op-ed a prominent supporter wrote accusing the former vice president of having a “big corruption problem,” and Sanders urged his backers to exercise civility on the heels of heated disputes with his rivals.

In an interview with CBS News, Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed contrition for the op-ed, which was written by law professor Zephyr Teachout for the Guardian newspaper and was promoted by the Sanders campaign in a newsletter. Teachout endorsed Sanders last year, and his campaign touted her support.

“It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way. And I’m sorry that that op-ed appeared,” Sanders said in the interview. A Sanders campaign spokesman confirmed his comments.
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It is rare for candidates to apologize for their actions or the activities of their supporters, particularly with the Iowa caucuses happening so soon, on Feb. 3.

The remarks marked at least a temporary de-escalation between two rivals who sit at or near the top of the polls and who had grown increasingly hostile to each other in recent days. Sanders also appeared keen on calming tensions with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); the two walked arm-in-arm at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in South Carolina six days after an explosive post-debate confrontation centering on a private conversation about gender and elections.

It was also a shift in tone for the Democratic race, which just 24 hours earlier had reached new levels of contentiousness. With President Trump’s impeachment trial set to begin in earnest in the Senate this week, some Democrats have been hoping the party will project more unity.

Some Sanders supporters have aggressively criticized Biden and Warren on social media. Sanders told CBS he did not approve of personal attacks. “If anyone knows me, what I believe is we need a serious debate in this country on issues. We don’t need to demonize people who may disagree with us,” he said.
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Okay so you concede that progress is possible but you're generally pessimistic about human nature. That may be because you hang around with narrow-minded republicans too much. Normal human beings are much better.

Moreover, most of the human suffering in the current era has come at the hands of self-styled progressive reformers bent on creating new utopias, who ended up creating only poverty and tyranny.

Could there possibly be a more vivid example of pot kettle?

Hillary Clinton says "nobody likes Sanders" ???!!!!

Could there possibly be a more vivid example of pot kettle?

[In Gallup polling] The high mark for most appearances at number 1, the most admired woman in the world, belongs to Hillary Clinton

"He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," Clinton says in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.