You're entitled to your opinion.
Naive and short-sighted as it is.
He served no purpose other than as a spoiler who put his own ambitions and agenda above what the best outcome for the nation would be. And BTW, ultra conservative, Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan was also barred from the 2000 debate but I don't see you complaining about that.
BFD. The youth vote and $5 would've gotten him a regular coffee at Starbucks.
Hillary still kicked his ass in the primaries throughout the western half of the country.
Trump had plenty of baggage too. Had the rainbow alphabet pansies and Bernie babies gotten off their asses and voted for her rather than staying home pouting because life told them they can't always get everything they demand (something their parents obviously failed to teach them), we may well have had our first woman President and not be mired neck deep in the trumpshit we are today.
Sanders was extreme because he pandered to the far looney left with his utopian, pie-in-the-sky ideas that hadn't a chance in hell of ever making it through Congress.
Yes, here we are.
Thanks for nothing, progressive panty-pissers.