Yes, it will be necessary to unify behind one candidate to beat Trump...but it's not just that...

[Ken Burch]

62. No, I'm not. Please just accept that nothing I say is about 2016

I endorsed HRC a week before the convention...which is as early as I could do so and still remain true to my convictions.

I think the platform was good and worked to persuade all manner of progressives to back her in the fall.

And I campaigned for her throughout the fall, without reservation and without hesistation.

All of that proves that I've put the primaries to rest.

What I was talking about is a long-term problem in the party.

The only thing I do harbor bad feelings about from 2016 were the relentless insinuations that only people who supported the person who eventually won the nomination FROM THE GET-GO could be considered reliably antiracist and anti-social oppression. Since EVERYONE on the progressive side of the spectrum is a committed opponent of all forms of bigotry, any insinuations about lack of antiracist, antisexist, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, or anti-xenophobia were out of line. All rank-and-file progressive people were in full agreement on all of these issues and that should simply have been accepted from the start.

Would you agree that, from now on, it should simply be taken as a given that, if you are in any way left of center, you are in full support of the entire anti-oppression agenda, no matter WHO you support for in the Democratic primaries?