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

[Ken Burch]

198. It happened. It shouldn't have. It didn't DEFINE anti-HRC sentiment on the Left.

What I keep hearing is the implication that the ONLY real reason anybody voted for Bernie was hatred and fear of the idea of a woman being president.

Heated things were said(and on both sides). There was more than a little antisemitism in some of the arguments against Bernie. And rather than just saying the Sanders campaign wasn't effective in reaching out to some demographics, the campaign and the candidate were smeared as not caring about and not WANTING the votes from those demographics, claims that were despicable lies-as was the insinuation that Sanders SUPPORTERS were collectively indifferent to the need to fight racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ prejudice.

It was a nastier campaign that it ever should have been, and I condemn all the nastiness from anyone who purported to support the candidate I did. But it wasn't one-way and no campaign could claim moral superiority on its tactics.

Putting HRC's political difficulties down predominately to sexism, the Russians and vote suppression implies that the campaign made no major mistakes and that we should just keep doing things exactly the same way. It reads as an excuse to avoid open discussion and change.