2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My head is spinning [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)That doesn't equate to saying it's no biggie if every Jewish Democrat leaves.
What are we supposed to do, say "we won't let a Muslim chair the DNC because one self-important retired trial lawyer best known for helping a weird multimillionaire get acquitted for murdering his own wife doesn't support him"?
Why should the anti-Ellison wing of the party be given special deference?
If you don't support Keith, fine...but don't twist everyone's words. Don't accuse us of something you know perfectly well we aren't guilty off(in this case, at least passive antisemitism).
Keith and Bernie are just people you disagree with on a few things(as near as I can tell the ONLY reason you're against Keith is that Bernie and his supporters like him)but please quit acting like they are monsters.
Everyone knows you don't like Bernie...and you have the right to your views...but how long are you going to keep raging at him and at the people who supported his campaign? And how do we ever gain votes in future elections when the only additional votes we're ever going to gain in 2018 or 2020 are people who stayed him this year because they had issues with Hillary's policies from her left(I say that as one of the people who spent a lot of the fall begging those people to support her on anti-fascist grounds)? We can't win if Sanders people are all made officially unwelcome unless the renouce Bernie and everything his campaign stood for.
If you permanently anathemize Bernie and all who rallied to him...we will never get the votes we need to win in any future election.
And the truth is, the overwhelming majority of Sanders supporters(myself include)are in full support of the social agenda you prioritize. There never was an actual difference of opinion on that. And that includes Bernie(though he never found the most effective ways to communicate this). Most of us DID support and work for Hillary in the fall and we were as devastated by the result as you are. We weren't to blame for what Comey did...OR the Russian hacking.
At what point will you finally stop treating us as the enemy and start supporting the unification process we need if we're ever to regain any of the lost ground?
Bernie didn't get nominated. Most likely, he'll never seek the presidency again. Isn't that ENOUGH?
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