It wasn’t about Bernie. Her plan was bad. It’s that simple. Her loss of support it to Pete, now Bernie. Those voters were hoping she would drop M4A but she didn’t. Pete has been throwing intense amounts of money going at M4A. And as the frontrunner Warren started getting negative attacks. Your political takes make no sense and just seem like whining that Bernie voters didn’t get behind Warren already. It’s a long primary, relax.
It absolutely was about Bernie. The majority of critiques boiled down to her not capitulating to Bernie on this issue and trying to advance the ball on her own. Her financing plan was pretty damn fantastic. Her transition plan was a fair play. If Bernie had come out with them first, they would be lauded by the same people shytting on them. Both plans have been celebrated by two of the most prominent progressive voices for M4A. One endorsed her. But there was an intra-left rift caused by people like yourself calling her plan "bad".
There is obviously a faction of soft-left voters whose primary metric is having a progressive-identifying candidate who signals intelligence and competence. These are the people who switched from Warren to Pete. Warren has been trying to shepherding this faction harder to the left, while Pete is running empty game on them and is now trying to move them to the center. I don't dispute that M4A is the reason they switched from her to him, I'm saying that the cold shoulder she got from both the center (expected)
and the Bernie-left contributed to those voters moving to Pete for the moment. If there was a robust response of support and solidarity on the Bernie left for Warren committing to M4A, much like we'd seen the actual candidates themselves support each other on the debate stage on this very topic, I think it would have blunted Pete's rise and signaled to squishes that M4A is a safe place to venture into. Instead, anxiety about Bernie's lack of pole (poll lol) position in this race has led to dumbass fights about Liz being a traitor to the progressive left after putting her neck out for M4A. Messaging matters. The viability of M4A still needs to shown and proven.
There are many reasons to support Bernie over Liz, and he's clearly the most committed to M4A, so I don't believe his voters should abandon him and jump over to her. I'm saying it would behoove the supporters of the campaign running on "Not Me, Us" to act like it for the betterment of the broader progressive left project.