You Need To Stop

[Ken Burch]

182. It's about the votes we need.

What chance do we have of getting enough votes to win in 2018 and 2020 if we don't treat pro-Sanders and pro-Clinton supporters and voters with equal respect?

I've spoken out more on anti-Sanders things here because there's BEEN more of them here. It's been relentless. There's been no recognition of the fact that the only path forward our party has is full inclusion of the Sanders movement-NOT a "Sanders takeover", just a recognition that the economic justice message(most of the party, including most Clinton supporters, agrees with Bernie on economic issues)to go with our social justice message. No appreciation of the fact that we need Sanders voters to win and that the only way to get them to the polls is to treat them with the same respect we treat anybody else whose votes we seek.

If there were threads about Hillary and her supporters now that had even one-tenth of the venom of the threads about Bernie but more importantly about Sanders voters-btw, can everybody just admit that it was a bum rap to equate support for Bernie to racism and sexism and admit that Sanders voters never collectively deserved that"-I'd be calling out the originators of those threads. But threads like that don't happen here now, and I'm not responsible for every site on the Internet where somebody, somewhere says rude things about HRC. Nobody has the time to police all of that.

For whatever it's worth, in the primaries I actually alerted on a lot of anti-Hillary threads.