I saw it coming. The entire campaign you observed some outrageous attacks on unlike minded U.S. Citizens from the Bernie Bros., and other left wing extremists. I'll be the first to admit, they took me to a place I had never been before.
I found it easy to respond unleashed, unedited, and with the same vulgarity they utilized.
The attacks were so direct, and so extreme, just like the attacks I had received over the years from groups or individuals that hated the color of my skin, my nationality (Mexican), and my advocacy for undocumented Immigrants, and the constitutional right of their children born in the United States to remain within the United States with full citizenship rights (Birthright Citizenship).
The 14th amendment, and Birthright Citizenship have been such a hot button issue politically, for so many years, reaching a plateau in 2010 with states arguing state sovereignty and their right to create state issued laws that would obviously come in direct conflict with federal laws. The Feds threatened to pull funding, and the proposed legislature failed in an all red Arizona, for fear of losing $.
The groups that I received the direct threats from, were those groups that were the most passionate about their fight, whether it was to curb "illegal immigration," or because they fought for, and helped fund the fight for SB1070, “Arizona's Show Me Your Papers Law," later struck down by the Supreme Court for it's use of racial profiling that led to the violation of U.S. Citizen's rights.
These aggressive, foul mouthed advocates for evil, and criminal deeds that attacked me, were the cream of the crop in the area of aggression, and criminality. There were Neo Nazis, a faction out of NY, and another led in AZ by murderer and suicide, J.T. Ready, The Minutemen, including A faction out of San Diego, and an Arizona faction led by convicted child molester Chris Simcox (Mexican Desert Hunters), The NSM (National Socalist Movement, a radical group in part led by Harry Hughes (Harry says I threatened him on live radio and carries a grudge), Hughes is also associated with the Klu Klux Klan, and lives in the Arizona Desert, and calls it his playground, The Hutaree, (a Christian Militia out of Michigan that threatened to chop my head off and place it on a stick on the border for the Coyotes to eat), and many, many, lone wolves.
For me to feel the same aggression, and hatred coming from these Bernie Bros., and Lone Wolf Bernie extremists as these previously mentioned groups, is not at all normal and it’s alarming.
Never before, in my six decades of being alive, and two decades of being involved in politics, had I seen such aggression, violence, and hatred, attached to politic debates.
Sanders has been called out on this time, and time again.
When Sanders ‘suspended” his campaign the morning of April 8, 2020, he said he would not stop continuing to gather delegates for purposes of influencing the Democratic Party platform at the Democratic Convention. To me, this fuels the fire within Bernie’s radical followers, this gives them a reason to continue the online threats, harassment, and personal wars.
These radical followers of Bernie are out to destroy Biden, the Democratic Party and the DNC. Many have made it very clear that they will not vote for Biden, and that they hate Biden, and any Biden supporter. That’s downright scary!
To me, it’s obvious, the Bernie Bros., the left wing extremist groups (ANTIFA & others), and the lone wolves, all took a page out of trump’s playbook. They all became MAGAs of the left, MAMS (Make America More Socialist). Unfortunately for all of us, these dogmatic followers of Bernie Sanders have learned a destructive mantra from Bernie, "if I can't have it, burn it down."
Carlos E. Galindo is a Registered Independent