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easytapper said
Someone on my FB feed said the major issue he has with Bernie Sanders is that he was so easily shut down by the protesters/hecklers.  That he can't support someone that weak.

Not especially insightful to take that stance. To presume that you can "handle" irrational, aggressive, militant people in any way other than having decent security who stops them before ever reaching the stage is fool hardy. Bernie didn't stoop to their force tactics, he remained calm, polite, civil, and rational. He tried to speak to them in a reasonable manner and was met by an escalation of their irrational tantrums. So he calmly told them that if that is how they insist on behaving that he was not going to tolerate it at which point he calmly left.

Those are EXACTLY the actions and temperament I want to see in a future president: Calm under fire, diplomatic, rational negotiation, and the ability to draw a line not to be crossed and enforce it (in this case by removing himself).

This was a failure in lack of adequate security. Bernie appears to want to be accessible, approachable, and personable. I think he was unprepared for "crazy", I mean frankly, no-one is EVER prepared for crazy, that's why we call it crazy. High security is incompatible with approachable. He needs a good middle ground security, and the stage should have been off limits.

It's really unfortunate how many examples of bad conduct and temperamentalism are coming from the Black Lives Matter movement. ALL LIVES MATTER. ALL LIVES. ALL. EVERY. SINGLE. LIFE. MATTERS. That they'd whine about that claiming that it undermines their message is irrational. Yes, Black Lives DO MATTER. Yes, racism and bigotry need to be eradicated. But ALL LIVES MATTER, and I'm not the least bit sorry for saying so.

The problem with that video was the tactics of the protesters. If they'd have cooperated, they'd likely have gotten the chance to say something. It was a reflection on them, not on Bernie.

And for the record, I've zero preference for any candidate from any party. I've not had time to research any of them and subsequently have no informed opinions to guide me. I've simply commented based solely on what was clearly evident to me from the video.