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In reply to the discussion: If it's out of bounds to keep attacking Hillary, it's out of bounds to keep attacking Bernie. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Unity means not telling anybody progressive to go away.
It means making this party a space in which people can work for what they want, including the ideas they want.
And it's not about the senator from Vermont as it is about us.
We need all the votes we can get in '18 and '20.
Whatever you think about the junior senator from Vermont-and I have issues with him on the way he has spoken on some issues-we HAVE to have the support of the people who rallied to him and of those who support the best of his ideas. We have no chance of winning their votes if we anathemize everything they care about and insist that no changes happen.
All we would need to do to win in future elections would be to combine New Deal economics with anti-oppression social policies-policies that would help the victims of hatred and the victims of greed-and no one in our base by the adoption of such policies.