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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And it wasn't about "acknowledging Bernie Sanders". The primaries were not about any one person's ego-hell, if Bernie was an egotist, wouldn't he get a good haircut and a well-tailored suit?.
The people who needed to be acknowledged were Sanders' supporters-what they achieved in building support for the candidate and more importantly the principles they fought and fight for was nothing short of heroic, yet in many places they were treated as nothing but spoiled children-spoiled PRIVILEGED WHITE children, even though many weren't privileged and there were larger numbers who weren't white as the campaign went on-whose candidate should never have run and who accomplished nothing.
In many areas(yours may have been an exception)they were treated as spoiled losers, what they did was derided as a failure, and those who treated them like that turned around and simply demanded their votes.
Would it really have been asking to much for the party to say, all over the place "what you did was worth doing, and if you'll stay with it, if you'll work with us, this party will be a place where you can go on working for what you want"?
If it was done that way where you were, good, but shouldn't it have been like that everywhere?