I want to thank the defenders of misogyny

[BainsBane]

39. "Screed"

and I wasn't even critical of him. That shows how little regard you have for citizen engagement or inquiry into the positions of candidates. This primary discussion has become a farce, where we are expected to hold a politician above the people he seeks to represent. That profoundly anti-egalitarian view is entirely consistent with the defenses of misogyny, condescension toward voters of color, and overall politics of exclusion some have worked diligently to construct. You say you knew I would support Clinton, but then you worked to make that happen by working to exclude me and others from your club. People have made clear they want the party to go back to its roots of representing the white middle class. They complain about Democrats who appeal to women, people of color, and LGBT Americans--the majority of the population--instead of a privileged minority, themselves, whom they see as more important. Insults about "Third Way," telling the poor they are aligned with Wall Street and the 1 percent for failing to promote the more important interests of the white male upper-middle and middle-class, and now insisting women must be subject to vulgar insults attacking their gender. You all have worked to exclude, to make the party smaller and smaller, and you have succeeded. This should be a cause for celebration. You got exactly what you wanted.