2016 Postmortem

I appreciate your story and believe it a hundred percent. I also know of stories from Sanders delegates who were treated badly, some of which could certainly been brought on themselves.

The point of my post was not to rehash and open wounds. I merely wanted to stress that in order for us to move forward, we must find ways to move forward together and not continue with the primary fight. I know many, like yourself, who have every reason to despise Sanders and anyone who would support him or anything he would support going forward, and the opposite can be seen from those who have been posting revisionist bullshit here regarding Sanders chances defeating Trump, and worse those who, and I've seen plenty recently, who think somehow the "nomination was stolen". It's the past now and after Friday the only thing that matters going forward is standing in opposition to Donald J Trump.

I know for my own part as a Sanders supporter in the primary, even though I was a Clinton voter in the general, I look back at some of the discussions from the primary and my own posts here and I can't help but feel deep sadness and regret in the vitriol...the bile flung left and right...the tearing down at all costs and, in light of the Russian leaks, think, we were all played. I don't regret my primary vote for Sanders and I certainly don't regret voting for Clinton, but I do regret the way we allowed things to play out and the manner in which it played out.

Ugh, I'm rambling....all that to say, we need each other here and in the real world. We must lean on each other going forward. Thank you again for sharing your story with me.