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In reply to the discussion: Top 15 Dem Candidates for 2020 According to the WaPo [View all]Ken Burch
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But that's the Right, not the prohibitive majority of Sanders supporters.
Support for Sanders was based almost entirely on the fact that those who backed him saw him as the only person in the race addressing
the set of issues he emphasized, not sexism, not dismissal of social justice Sanders supporters-whatever you might say about Bernie's personal emphases-were and are just as anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobia, anti-xenophobia and pro-choice as HRC supporters.
And I strongly suspect that the vast majority of HRC supporters never thought economic justice and social justice were in any actual way in conflict, or that economic justice as a concept was something they thought needed to be put aside.
There was never a difference on the actual issues between the voters for each candidate, there's no reason the voters for each can't now find common ground, there's no valid reason to try to exclude or silence either group, so whatever anyone might think of either candidate, can we at all agree that the artificial divisions created by the primary should finally be ended so we can all accept that we are all, on the Left, on the same freaking side?
What matters is unity and the future.