You Need To Stop

[Ken Burch]

226. I have never disrespected you at all. Not once.

I've mainly asked that you discuss things on the merits of the issues rather than endlessly belittling people and acting as if they are too far beneath you for you to treat them with any civilty.

If Sanders people were posting viciously anti-Hillary threads her now I'd be telling THEM to cool it. But that isn't happening, at least not from what I can see. What I'm seeing on DU now is a one-war war-Clinton supporters relentlessly attacking not only Bernie(even falsely accusing him of not being pro-choice) but essentially all his supporters as well. And their ideas are being attacked here when those ideas have never been the problem.

It's as some people won't stop until anything even remotely connected with what the Sanders campaign was about, even the vast majority of it that was inspiring and positive, is anathemized in this party, until it's agreed that every campaign for the rest of eternity will be run exactly like that one was.

If that happens, if that choice is actually made, what hope do we have? Where ELSE will we add votes to our total, other than from people who want us to be more progressive? What new voters can be brought in that won't want us to be a party to be open to new ideas in addition to the best of the current ones?