Bernie Sanders did not lie to his followers; they deceived
themselves, just as most of them – the ones that were old enough – had
fooled themselves into believing that Barack Obama was a peace candidate
and a political progressive back in 2008, although Obama’s actual
record and policy pronouncements showed him clearly to be a corporate
imperialist warmonger – a political twin of his principal primary
election opponent, Hillary Clinton and her philandering, huckster
husband.
Back then, phony leftists like Bill Fletcher and Tom Hayden
swore on their mothers’ honor that Obama’s campaign was really a
people’s movement, a prelude to revolution – as if the Democrats, a
militarist corporate political party, could give birth to an
anti-corporate, anti-militarist people’s revolution.
-- Glen Ford, "Bernie Sanders Endorses the World’s Greatest (Presumptive) Evil" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).