Just food for thought when someone makes a positive post about an event for a Dem Candidate

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19. THIS ^^^^^

I really haven't seen ANY Hillary people dumping on other Dems. But I have noticed a painfully large and sometimes outright vicious attempt from - I'll just say - elsewhere on the Dem landscape.

Granted, I may not have looked around enough. Admittedly.

But I sure know what I've been seeing lately, looking around to at least some extent. I keep wanting to shout - HEY GUYS, HILLARY PEOPLE ARE NOT THE ENEMY!!!! The GOP IS THE ENEMY, OKAY?????????????? Kindly direct your brickbats and mace shots and insults and snark at THEM, OKAY??????????

STOP IT, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!!!!!! We're gonna wind up with a CON in the White House in 2017 if this divisiveness continues. I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN. I'm old enough to have WITNESSED IT PERSONALLY!!!!! 1968 - Hubert Humphrey versus Gene McCarthy in the Democratic Party contest. Lots of pouting and lots of staying home when one Dem candidate prevailed over the other Dem candidate. And guess what happened? We wound up with richard fucking NIXON in the White House. I defy ANYONE here to declare that a positive outcome of ANY sort.

I've found that, even though I have openly and publicly professed a VERY eager willingness to support a different candidate if that candidate beats Hillary for the nomination, I am now avoiding threads for that other candidate. I used to rec them because it's the principle here - I SUPPORT DEMS. NOT THE CONS!!!! But I've stopped doing that. The vitriol here is starting to alienate me from that other candidate. And I don't want it to get that way. I would urge followers of all candidates to TAKE IT EASY ON THE FAN BASE HERE! Hillary people, Bernie people, STOP IT!!!!! The supporters of both those candidates are NOT THE ENEMY. OKAY?????? LAY OFF!!!!!!!!! That bullshit is only going to alienate the undecideds here, when I suspect the real desire is to woo them toward one's own camp, is it not? Hell, I've already seen testimony here about that very thing happening. I'm trying very hard to avoid pointing any fingers directly or naming any names, but I will only be specific enough to say some of the more rabid Bernie people have already pushed at least one wavering voter here who HAD BEEN leaning toward them - resoundingly AWAY. You REALLY wanna keep doing that? Seriously? YOU are going to sink YOUR OWN candidate - and very likely our whole side of the aisle next year if you keep that shit up. Hillary people too. WRONG WAY TO GO ABOUT DOING THAT, folks!!!!

Forcryingoutloud, guys - we're all supposed to be on the SAME TEAM!!!!!!!!

And I realize I'm probably just shouting into a vacuum... After all, as they said in the movie trailers - "in space, no one can hear you scream."