2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders raising money off of false hopes - why aren't we SCREAMING about this? [View all]highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)support him with time and energy and money.
They are just anxious because it's not truly over.
It's kind of disgusting, really, to drip their anxiety all over the place into other people's business.
If you want to be helpful, use your time and energy to find ways to include the Bernie voters into your agenda, your convention, and your Party in case Hillary does win. That would be the smart thing to do.
Oh, I know, you are going to win the general election on your own. Wow, I've had so much experience in life with "winners" who can't get along with others enough to get valuable things done. Could this become just one other exercise like that?
Personally, I think so. But if you think screaming at us, trying to prevent us from doing what we want, defiling our candidate, using gestapo tactics to run conventions contrary to Robert's Rule of Order are productive, I guess I can't stop you.
But we could have a Progressive juggernaut this year, if only the two sides would band together. Unfortunately, the price of our admission is for Hillary and the other powers that be to prove they are legitimately Progressive. And either they can't or won't commit.