The voting will soon begin. I pledge to keep it positive.

[Tom Rinaldo]

I don't care if there is reporting from someone somewhere in the country about who says or does something unkind, or unfair. Not any more. There is too much at stake now to feed into a negative spiral. Maybe I will try to rebut something I read about that seems to me inaccurate, but I will pass on the aggrieved emotions .

It is obvious to me how bitterness festers and amplifies upon itself. Way way back, a long time ago, I learned about legendary feuds, stuff like the Hatfields and the McCoys. It didn't make sense to me then how feuds like that spiral out of control, with each new round of hatred justified by the one before it, but I get it now. There will ALWAYS be something to be outraged by; and outrage begets outrage, and lashing out begets lashing out.

I am going to fall in strongly behind whichever Democratic candidate the voters fall in strongly behind. Period. End of story. It may take a few weeks or a few months for that to sort itself out, but while I wait for that resolution I am making one myself. I will not feed the trolls. I will not amplify the bots. I know that some grievances are legitimate. Frankly, I don't give a damn. Further pursuing them now is not worth the cost to the collective resistance to Trump when we must be united soon heading toward November.

Very few voters enter the primaries consumed by disgust with this or that negative portrayal of this or that candidate by that or this supporter of this or that candidate. They vote for who they want to have lead us into Novembers election. That is what I will listen to and respond to now.

[DownriverDem]

1. How about

supporting a candidate that can beat trump? That's all that matters to most of us.

[Magoo48]

2. I have, and a progressive to boot.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Ah, but I do

But the point of this OP is not to second guess the voters who about to start voting in States around the country. No one will win our nomination who does not convince our voters on that point. And while this all plays out, I will not contribute to poisoning the well for any of our nominees. That too should matter to most of us.