2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There's no good reason to anathematize Bernie and his supporters. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I spoke out against attacks on Clinton supporters, called out anyone who used gender as a reason to oppose HRC(even though almost no Sanders supporters opposed her on those grounds) fought to get the "Stockholm syndrome" thread removed, and repeatedly called on the Sanders campaign to correct its initial omission of racial justice/criminal reform issues from its website and the stump speech(omissions that were totally corrected after the first month, even though most Clinton supporters here kept falsely insisting that nothing had changed with him on that).
And if Bernie had been nominated, I'd have been doing all I could to make sure that the "social justice" issues were fully addressed in his fall campaign and that everything necessary to establish trust with Clinton primary voters was done.
There was never any irrelesolvable conflict between what the groups who preferred HRC to Bernie wanted and what Bernie actually proposed. Everything could have been quite easily talked out.
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