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In reply to the discussion: Thanks Skinner, YOU ROCK!!! [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are so partisan that they'd leave. Quite the contrary. I have a poor memory for names so now and then I take the time to toss a few names onto lists for people to "talk to" and "should avoid" (like when I want to behave well myself, although I don't necessarily follow my own advice).
The "talk-to" list is for those who strike me as sufficiently reasonable, civil, and politically honest to be able to trade ideas, agreements, disagreements with.
The "avoid" list is for those who strike me as so hostile toward those who have other opinions, too closed-minded, irrational, too aggressively partisan, and/or too dishonest to be willing (or able) that talking to them is really a waste of time.
The lists are very incomplete, but lots of Bernie supporters are on the "talk to" list and it is longer than the "avoid" list.
Those who define themselves more by all the things they are passionately against and want to tear down rather than what they are for and want to build should not imagine that reported 89% is full of people like them. It is not.