"No more dynasties"--for women, that is

[Ken Burch]

75. The vast majority of opposition to HRC in the primaries was on the issues and nothing else.

Were there some people claiming to be Sanders supporters-some of whom, it later turned out, were right-wing infiltrators-saying horrid things? Of course-and I called a lot of them out on it at the time.

There were also a ton of threads in which the thread title just HAPPENED to make a point of calling Bernie a "Socialist Jew" and falsely accusing him of not WANTING the votes of African-Americans, Latinos, women, and LGBTQ voters and implying that virtually ALL of Bernie's supporters were arrogant young white men who sneered at the rest of the world.

Those threads just as bad as anything anybody ever said here about HRC or her supporters.

Are you seriously going to argue that nobody on the Left had a legitimate, issues-based reason to oppose HRC in the primaries?

That we all OWED her an unchallenged nomination just to prove we weren't misogynists?

(I'm not talking about the fall-and the vast majority of people who had backed HRC's main opponent DID work for and vote for HRC-I spent a good part of the fall begging those who said they couldn't to change their minds, for the record).

Now, we need unity. And you are fighting to keep us from uniting. We can only win in 2018 and 2020 if we bring everyone who backed both primary candidates, and those who didn't vote in the fall out of alienation, together in a coalition for change.

What you are doing here is going to make that a lot harder.

Please just say what you need to see and hear in order to stop posting threads like this.

We all agree that sexism, racism, anti-LGBTQ bigotry and religious ethnic prejudice have no place in this party-what is it going to take for you to at least consider trusting that, and to stop demonizing parts of this party and parts of the Left for the worst things said by a small number of people in an internet forum in the heat of a presidential primary campaign?