The High Price of the Politics of Petulance

[One of the 99]

It is my experience that in American politics, absolutism leads to failure. Sanders’s supporters are driven by principle, but any reasonable reading of the past 50 years of American political history would bring them comfort in the recognition that they have already won, that more future victories are achievable in a Clinton presidency—and none under Trump—and that their guy is leading the way.


This election will be won or lost through voter turnout and voter suppression. Numbers matter. Bernie Sanders has exhorted his followers to vote for Clinton. For them to ignore him and sit it out or look elsewhere would run exactly counter to the vision Sanders has brought to the process. They should follow his lead and show up. The alternative is just not worth the risk.


And so we may avoid even a single term of Trump.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/31/from-humphrey-hatred-to-bernie-or-bust-the-high-price-of-the-politics-of-petulance.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I don't think it's gonna be much of an issue.

All the Democrats who voted for Sanders, by and large, understood the Primary process and are prepared to support the winner of it. The non-Democrats brought in; some may not get it, but a lot of them will get on board too.

So it's a net gain.