2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There was no justification for any hardline tactics in support of HRC at the NV Dem convention. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The convention chair is supposed to be totally neutral in a presidential nominating contest, anyway.
And some were not young, but they had every right to feel their side was being treated unjustly.
We're talking about a total of 35 delegates here. Why even do hardball over a delegation that small?
And why has it never been enough for you to just make a positive case for YOUR candidate? Why has your tactic, throughout this campaign, been to bait people and sneer at them? There is nothing the Sanders supporters here have ever done to you to deserve that from you.
You're hurting your candidate by being like that...you are making it harder to unify the party behind her if she DOES win. She won't be entitled to just demand unified support after her supporters have used these tactics. What you SHOULD be doing is trying a conciliatory approach and acknowledging, even if you don't support Bernie, the validity of the points his campaign and the Sanders movement have raised-rather than just getting all "you kids get off my lawn" about the whole thing.