Check in if you're done fighting with the other side and trashing the other candidate

[geek tragedy]

That shit's over, and it is unproductive even by internet squabbling standards.

if someone is still clinging to past divisions, BFD. no need to respond and feed the dynamic. I supported Hillary, but I'm done criticizing Sanders. He can do whatever he wants, he's no longer an opponent.

And, fuck Donald Trump.

[PJMcK]

1. K&R

Times 100,000

[CanadaexPat]

2. What's done is done, and this is done.

Now I want Bernie to help build a movement while supporting the nominee.

[rogerashton]

3. Hillary's success in California and New Jersey is good news.

That's from a Bernie supporter -- but never anti-Hillary.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. I am ready to Thump, Trash, and Dump Trump. Let's work together

for the greater good.

[missingthebigdog]

5. It is past time to come together.

We have work to do!

[Tarc]

6. It depends. Even in the midst of election returns last night,,,

there were still brand-new threads about Emailgate.

[geek tragedy]

7. new rules will do away with that crap, and trash thread is a wonderful option

alert, trash and ignore is the best way to deal with trolls

[Marr]

9. The new rules will prevent discussion of the FBI investigation of Hillary's

emails, huh?

Didn't know that.

[LoverOfLiberty]

8. Take them for what they are

and ignore them.

For my part, I want to make sure I don't say or do a single thing that will hurt Hillary's chances in November.

[auntpurl]

10. Checking in!

Just got myself a shiny new star too - I like serving on juries. That's my commitment to making DU a great place for Democrats again!

[SciFiRK]

30. Depends on what kind of Democrat you want to be

[auntpurl]

32. Dunno about you.

I am a moderate, straight-ticket voting, broken glass Democrat, who has voted for the Democratic candidate in every national, state, and local election since I turned 18 (except once a very long time ago when an anti-choice conservative state senator Democrat was running against a pro-choice liberal Republican - remember when there was such a thing as liberal Republicans??).

I am socially very liberal, fiscally somewhat conservative, and believe in a strong foreign policy. Hillary's views align very well with my own.

So...that's the kind of Democrat I want to be. If Bernie had been the nominee, despite my personal opinion of him, I would have voted for him with joy in my heart against the fascist Trump. I would have happily supported O'Malley or anyone else on the Democratic slate of candidates.

In the primaries, vote your heart, in the GE vote your head. I'm lucky because those two options were the same this time around; can't tell you how many times that WASN'T true in the past.

[democrattotheend]

11. Mostly

I've accepted that Hillary will be the nominee and I congratulate her. I hope that Bernie finds a way to gracefully step aside after the last primary in DC.

And definitely fuck Donald Trump.

[gollygee]

12. I never had any urge to trash the other candidate

I don't always understand this place. I really like Bernie, but Hillary is not nearly so different from him as has been suggested here. She's less progressive, but she isn't conservative, or evil, or even owned by corporations. She just isn't as progressive, and I would expect the candidates to differ as far as how progressive they are.

I also don't understand why people think they have to have a candidate who agrees fully with them, or it isn't worth voting. I've voted for candidates I didn't see eye to eye with my whole voting life. I'm given a choice between two human beings. What is the likelihood of one of them lining up with my views 100%, or even close to that? Pretty much none, unless I'm personally running. I think a lot of people have an unrealistic view of the other candidate, and unrealistic expectations of how elections work.

[auntpurl]

22. Great post. I agree!

[yardwork]

31. That's how I feel.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. Taking the pledge. Will do my best.

[mcar]

14. Well said!

[ucrdem]

15. Yes but is the other side done with trashing Hillary?

I heard the speech and it was fine. But what they tweet is another matter.

[geek tragedy]

16. things are working themselves out. nt

[ucrdem]

17. Yes and I'm all for comity but nevertheless this came from somewhere:

[geek tragedy]

18. that was june 6. today is june 8 nt

[ucrdem]

19. The figures are from June 6.

They've changed a bit in the interim.

[geek tragedy]

20. no one takes the contested convention talk seriously nt

[ucrdem]

21. Except Bernie supporters.

Who are still convinced that she needs 2,383 pledged delegates to win the nomination. Anything else is rigged and good luck trying to dissuade them. And I expect more from same and I'm not talking about DU.

p.s. I'm not saying Bernie needs to do this or that, only that there are going to be campaign er, strategies that will require a response.

[geek tragedy]

23. a few randos maybe, vast majority understand the laws of physics nt

[NCTraveler]

24. Fuck Trump. Nt

[Il_Coniglietto]

25. Only two things matter: electing Democrats and defeating Republicans

The rest is intra-party (and intra-DU) squabbling that few of us will care much about four months from now. Beat Trump, beat the Republican Party and let's get as many Democrats elected as we can!

[ALBliberal]

26. Go DEMS! So proud of our candidates and our Nominee! nt

[tblue37]

27. I never fought with the other side or trashed the other candidate.

I think the trashers on both sides were a small but very active group.

Most of us Bernie supporters also like Hillary and O'Malley and were very proud to have three excellent candidates compared to the 17 disasters the Republicans fielded.

[geek tragedy]

28. I don't think Jim Gilmore was relevant enough to qualify as a disaster nt

[tblue37]

29. He was disastrously irrelevant. nt

[MattSh]

33. Everybody out there [gonna be] good, or what?

Oh, that's not many, not many, you guys are in trouble out here!