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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Faces Feisty Democratic Challenger [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)What interests me more in your post is this comment:
"One thing I happen to believe is that people are within their rights to vote as they please, and that there is something rather unseemly about lambasting someone for not voting as you demand."
That's REALLY funny as a post on DU. Were you, by chance, here during the primaries? Did you happen to notice an occasional (insert smilie) post that lambasted people for how they voted? In my subject line, the word "cultists" is in quotation marks because that smear was actually thrown at people who supported Bernie. There were, of course, plenty of other such attacks on us, and, yes, there was lambasting of Clinton voters, too.
The fact is that this is a discussion board. People express preferences. If I say "I support ___ in the Democratic primary," that does not constitute a "demand" that people vote that way. In the same vein, I can say that Bernie is a better Senator than Svitavsky would be, and that doesn't mean that I want to remake the Democratic Party to promote one man's career.