I know it's popular to knock down Bernie Sanders BUT

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1. they're not making enemies of all of his supporters

as disheartening as it is to read some of the anti-sanders comments, I think most of the vocalization is directed towards people who voted for jill stein. this cannot be more than a minority of democratic voters, but if that voting occurred in MI/WI/PA, it was a pretty bad idea. that is in fact legitimate criticism.

what disturbs me more are posts that imply that imply progressive candidates cannot win, cannot pass legislation, and are not viable candidates. i'll admit Kucinich was unelectable, but he would have gone beast mode in the presidential debate. however, if we have a good progressive candidate in any race and the DNC finds a reason to back someone else, then some debate and introspection are in order.

edit: IIRC my sister voted for jill stein but she's in CA. if someone can link me to one of these polls showing 4%-10% of democratic voters having voted for Jill Stein, any honest criticism of that will restrict the poll sample to MI/WI/PA. If anyone tries to use the national vote count as the total, they are intentionally or unintentionally buttressing a weak argument. People in solid blue states could afford to vote for jill stein, and any stein vote counts in a solid blue state should be interpreted correctly as a vote against both Hillary and Trump.