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Sigh. I usually have a personal rule about getting into arguments on the internet but I have no self control today apparently. I'm not even american but this comment missed the point so spectacularly, I feel the need to reply. Not as an attack on the person I am replying to, but almost as an academic exercise...
I belive the message of the meme is that Bernie is doing harm but accumulating support as a more leftwing senator and then failing to actually take any meaningful stance. When people put hope into a member of the establishment that exists to uphold the current system at all costs, they give themselves a pat on the back, consider the job done, and fail to look at other possibilities which would lead to their actual liberation. The idea that he serves to "hold the tent pole" for a middle of the road candidate is not logical because in practice he is no different than the rest of the DNC.
I don't understand how this could in any way be compared to an agent provocateur, but I suppose what is meant is sowing discord more than the more literal meaning. Overall, I agree. This meme is meant to point out that Bernie is actively harmful to liberation of the american people and is meant to ask people to wedge from the "progressives" who seek polite imperialism.
I don't disagree with this statement but the OP isn't attacking Bernie for being imperfect but pointing out that this is by design.
Supporting the DNC isn't going to fix your country either. There is no path to liberation within your current system. Good luck tho ✌️