It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection.

[DanTex]

256. We don't have many Republicans on this board, but people call out the GOP here all the time.

What makes you think I'm calling out anyone on DU? I'm not, I'm calling out people like Ralph Nader and Jill Stein. And Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer and Abby Martin and Mike Malloy and so on (but not Noam Chomsky, who emphasized the importance of voting for Hillary).

Yes, I agree that more emphasis on the progressiveness of the Hillary campaign, and the similarities with Bernie's ideas, would have been good. On the other hand, with the far-left media in their crazed Hillary-bashing state, would it have helped? I don't know.

Because you are right, there are a lot of new voters. Many of them young and left-leaning, many who follow alternative media, maybe TYT or RT or whatever. And many of them were fed the "Hillary and Trump are the same" lie by far lefties who should know better.

This is who I am calling out. People who push lies to left-leaning young people, with the effect of depressing Democratic turnout and helping Republicans win elections. People like Nader, who used his celebrity and progressive credentials to push Bush into the White House. People like Hedges, who uses his Pulitzer and the credibility he gets from his (impressive) journalist career and best-selling authorship to push the lie that the Democrats are no different from Republicans.

I know that you know what I am talking about. As a Bernie supporter, you did, as you have said, try to talk to others about the importance of electing Democrats. There is no doubt that people forwarded articles by Hedges or Nader or many of those other people to you in response. These people made your efforts more difficult. So I don't see why you have a problem with me calling them out.