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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)Or how many people who supported the candidate I supported are considered part of it.
It does sound, quite a lot of the time, as though ALL Sanders supporters are blamed for the acts of the worst.
And there are a lot of posts and threads that accuse Sanders supporters of being some sort of cult, as opposed to a legitimate movement for social and economic change, and that imply that everything any of those people posts here is part of some sort of a plot.
This is just as wrong as blaming all HRC supporters for the worst of what was said on that side(such as all the threads here that pejoratively referenced Bernie's Jewishness and used 1950's-style redbaiting rhetoric when that kind of talk is totally unacceptable on a supposedly "progressive" board. Or the all the threads that came damn close to calling Sanders supporters white supremacists.
As far as Tim Ryan goes...considering the vote he pulled in the Dem caucus compared to the number of endorsements Sanders received, it's clear that most of his supporters in the minority leadership race were HRC supporters in the primary.