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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)Clinton supporters and Sanders supporters have been working together without friction or issues or nastiness since July. The field organizers in my state were Bernie supporters, who put their heart and soul into Hillary.
This not a religion, and preaching to people isn't really a good way to win anyone over. Ask anyone subjected to missionaries. We already know it's doable, and we already now it needs to be done, these are issues that the Democrats have been working on for years. Literally everyone knew that healthcare access was a problem, anyone alive in the 90's saw Hillary working on it and getting even more attention due to the butthurt of the Republicans and the media that she would DARE do something other than host tea parties.
We've been on this, and have been progressively pushing forward, that's how progress is made, one step after the other. The sloganeering of the past election where people who clearly had never paid attention and didn't know words were spitting "incrementalism" as if it were some epithet was just silly.
We need to build momentum by working together not tearing each other down, we've never been the party engages in the cult of personality, that's the other side. It's time to put all that stuff behind us, and realize how actual progressives work, and stop inserting all this divisive garbage. Bernie wasn't doing this before he ran, he wasn't doing it when he ran, he did little to stop the vocal folks on the internet and the impetuous guys on the college campuses, (mostly, I think because he wasn't paying attention and didn't know what was going on). Even his own campaign for the most part wasn't engaging in this. The divisive forces on the internet, taking advantage of people's ignorance, their personal prejudices and the mob mentality of echo chambers on the internet were responsible.
We're fine. Bernie is fine, the Democrats are fine. And we've never been about anything other than helping people in tangible ways. All that "corporate shill" and "DINO" crap is coming from outside forces, not Democrats, progressives and liberals. Real ones that is. Stop buying into the media narratives and the letting the online trolls seeking to sow discord gain traction.