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Thank you Autumn
As you pointed out to someone else, no one is saying to stop supporting your candidate of choice, you're simply asking for civility.
He will and so many of us, certainly myself, will lose posting privileges, I had grown most fond of you.
Goodbye! 
And, BTW, why is a Bernie supporter calling to be purged? What did I miss?
in every season... 
I hope that both sides here at DU can turn to the national campaign. Trump will be more difficult to defeat than most realize. We need to begin focusing on the task now. 
reached out to the Bernie supporters from Hillary AND her supporters.
There is too much vitriol right now to wrap this up.
Including this:
Seems like there is still too much fight left on both sides to call it.
And I guarantee the replies to this very post will be further proof of that.
It will be epic 
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Bernie is at 50 % nationally. Hillary is challenged on so many fronts and underwater in her numbers. I am amazed and a bit disappointed that you posted this. 
If you were guests, you would have been thrown out some time ago for shitting on the carpet.
People come, people go.
I don't want to lose any of our Bernie supporters. We need each other. 
I might join you there in Cooking and Baking. I like to do that, too. . And, of course, there's the gardening forum which is also something I enjoy.
I'm really about politicked out, at least on the national level. How we vote in Alaska in presidential elections is so inconsequential as to be meaningless, so I'm not sure why I even bother to get involved. State elections are another matter, and that's probably where I'll be turning my attention.
just north of here - four-pound carrots, 90-pound cabbages, kohlrabis as big as your head. I think it's the combination of really fertile soil, glacial minerals and 20 hours of daylight in the summer. You can almost literally watch stuff grow here. The veggie weigh-ins at the state fair are always a big deal.
My garden is pretty normal, though, although I do grow remarkable rhubarb. It's right next to the compost bin.
Pie?
I can just imagine what that does for the pot crops. 
We disagree on certain things, but overall, your heart is in the right place.
It Berns 
feel the Bern!
By Jove I think you've got it.
would have zero effect to help those I care about, much lower readership, and only visited by Sanders supporters that need not read my words to Grok anything as they are already there.
If it is "called for Clinton" by Skinner at Autumn's and other's request before I get a chance to exchange posts with you again, likely within hours now that a well known and well respected in-site Bernie Supporter that Runs the Sanders group.
Goodbye my friend! perhaps my journal will still be available after I am tomb stoned (not really sure how that works)
We're in it to win it. Bernie didn't get his ass handed him yesterday. She did what she had to do (with many irregularities) to continue and Bernie did well. We still have a race and Bernie is the better candidate. I don't know why anyone would lose heart and call it now.
Not me. If they do a DKOS here they will regret it in so many ways...I think they're already feeling it. If they do we'll find a work around, it's what we do.
Keep writing. Keep speaking out! 
For months, the Bernie Sanders group at DU has been my refuge, the people there my fellow travelers. If this is how the "leadership" of the Sanders group feels, I have to question why they are there at all, and what the group has really been for since it was set up. Is it really just a big Trojan Horse????
At the very least, Autumn, this post should have been in the Sanders group before it was unleashed on GDP. That is, if you're a genuine Sanders supporter, and have any regard for the rest of us you've been pretending to be on board with.
So fucking disappointed.
Let's go 840high...we have a scrappy candidate to support! 
MARK IT ZERO, DUDE
Primo medicinal brownies. That's one of the oh so many reasons why I support Bernie ( because there isn't a happy person eating a brownie)
you'll see my posts until you put me on ignore. I'm sticking with Bernie, no qualifiers.
Of course the bullshit is knee high (or higher) around here, and of course it's no fun to wade through the filth in order to put forth a few truths, counter a few lies, and keep hope alive for any kind of fairness, justice, compassion and decency in this country.
I don't like it either. Many of my favorite DU commenters are gone -- some have trashed GDP, some split for jpr, some are banned or "on review" for bogus reasons and sheer vindictiveness, and some just lie low.
So when it's disgusting beyond belief, you take a vacation. I'm going to try to stick it out to put in a good word for the only candidate worth supporting in this race or try to counter some of the lies, but even I've had to put the worst on ignore.
But don't ask him to close the whole thing out yet, Autumn.
👓 ☮ 👓 ☮ 👓 ☮ THINK OF THECHILDRENLURKERS! ☮ 👓 ☮ 👓 ☮ 👓
and no facts allowed to counter the noise?
You want that?
Nah, you don't want that.
You want a vacation, a massage, music, poetry, a trip to the shore, a trip to the lake, light flickering off water and dancing through treetops, fine cuisine, fine wine, the laughter of children, live drama performances, a rode trip, a cruise, a great novel, a good cry, a good night's sleep, reconnection with old friends, redecorate the living room ... and you can take it from there.
Get what you need, Autumn.
Bernie can wait (we'll take care of him.)
its time to unify against Trump and the republicans.
I think you may have switched sides, perhaps without even realizing it yourself.
I base this on your OP, and on some of your recent posts; I qualify this by saying I
typically quickly skim posts and that raises the risk of misunderstanding content; so I
may be totally wrong. But how else make sense of calls to stop criticizing HRC and
to start criticizing Bernie Sanders.
Provided we could still be supportive of our candidate, and keep to our group and follow the rules, the amount of wasted energy not spent on arguing could go to a great deal of good if this site moved on to the General Election.
Do we really want him to "call it"? I don't know, I'm not sure it matters.
If I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down, it's like "call it, Skinner. Or don't. I don't care, there's work to do, whatever."
Now, what's interesting to me is that some days ago, or weeks, Skinner changed his avatar from the H back to the DU.
I thought that to be a rather kind and thoughtful thing to do!
I make a rare comment here in GD: P, but I've known for ages DU is not the place for real primary discussion or candidate promotion.
Don't resign as Group Host.
You are so right it's all noise. Very little thoughtful discussion of any issues. 
Here is a vid for you.
Peace.
LT
Thanks for the video
it happening either. Could you imagine the hundred or so Hillary supporters sitting here chatting with each other after they get rid of the rest of us? That would be a gigantic snooze fest 
Posting is money for the site.
Like all those Millions of Democrats in California.
Autumn,
Nine states, thousands of miles, personal donations and four months away from my spouse… That is the tiniest of glimpses of what 2008 was like for me and still my then preferred candidate lost. I remember being so angry and disappointed, it sucked and I wanted every person who told me to fall in line to $#@! off!
I did just that, at least until my candidate said to stop looking in the past and to move forward. I’m grateful for President Obama and indeed I did vote for him and in the end, I’m so happy that I did.
Wherever you are, please accept my apologizes for the disagreement that we had. I remember what it felt like and also remember wishing then Senator Obama’s supporters were kinder to the rest of us. I offer that to you.
Wishing you the best.
Firebrand Gary
