2. This bullshit about "unity" is just that--bullshit!--to brainwash voters into thinking it's over.
3. I don't like tactics that try to fuck with peoples' minds--it's dishonorable.
4. I don't like any of the dirty tricks, lies and election rigging that the Clinton campaign and the DNC have engaged in, trying to shove this candidate, Clinton, down our throats.
5. I don't like the Corrupt Media which has been shilling for Clinton from day one, with the candidate's complicity on false delegate numbers, outright lies and other crapola (including feeding a falsely captioned photo of Bernie Sanders civil rights activism to Time magazine, which had to print a retraction!) Unforgivable crapola!
6. I don't like the Democratic Party leadership, which, as far as I can see, are a bunch of bought-and-paid for minions--bought and paid for by this candidate with money from the Saudi arms deal she arranged as Sec of State, and arms deals with other woman-hating regimes, after they donated millions to her Clinton Foundation slush fund.
7. I don't like having a candidate under investigation by the FBI for national security malfeasance, and possible crimes.
8. I don't like a candidate who supported the fascist coup in Honduras, where women activists are being murdered for opposing the coup and trying to protect Mother Earth, and many people are suffering brutality and loss of liberty.
9. I don't like a candidate who gloats and laughs over the bayonet rape and murder of her opponent, as she did about Libya's Gaddaffi ("We came, we saw, he died! ha-ha-ha!" on vid), showing no human decency nor any compassion for the millions of destroyed lives in the now chaotic country, including the most vulnerable victims of war--women, children, the elderly and the sick.
If the differences between Clinton and Sanders were only about policy, unity could perhaps be achieved over the platform and personal commitments regarding enacting it, over future procedures of the party and election integrity in general, and about appointments such as Treasury Secretary and DNC chair.
But there are more fundamental differences between these two candidates and campaigns--on character, judgment and world view, that may impossible to reconcile.
The Clinton Foundation's acceptance of millions of dollars from war profiteers and dictatorial regimes, and then turning around and using these tainted slush funds to buy the political loyalty of non-profit groups (such as Dolores Huerta/United Farm Workers), and the Clinton campaign's list of bankster, for profit-prison, military contractor, big Pharma, Big Oil donors--these things are show-stoppers. They are so corrupt that supporting the candidate who is funded by them is equivalent to saying "yes" to Corporate/War Profiteer rule.
Politics does require compromise, even between bitterly opposed sides, but this kind of compromise will be too much for many Sanders supporters. Some Democratic Sanders supporters may agree to unity. Many Democrats and, above all, most independents, will flee. Where will they flee to? There is already talk of a write-in campaign for Sanders. There is already talk of a third party. There is talk of voting for Jill Stein of the Greens and/or joining the Greens. There is talk of throwing all energies into electing Bernie Democrats for lower offices, and of creating a movement for election integrity and reform perhaps with the ability to generate funds for Bernie candidates at all levels.
I think the feeling of many Sanders supporters is that Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate with such high negative numbers on trustworthiness and likeability and so much "baggage", that she will lose the GE, and she is, further, so bad on all the issues that we care about, why devote our energy and funds to such a candidate? If she manages to win, we expect betrayal.
Anyway, the current spate of Hillarybots running around DU today posting OP after OP abusing Sanders supporters, tells us: a) This primary is NOT over, and b) They don't want "unity."
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