Bernie speaking on 1st day at Women's conference is a horrible idea & it's easy to show why...

[Ken Burch]

247. Seriously...the endless repetition of the phrase "hasn't been a particular backer"

isn't bashing?

You do realize that a lot of women, particularly women under 30 to 35, don't see Bernie as someone who isn't on their side, right?

Whatever you may have intended, this thread reads as a continuation of your endless campaign against everyone to the left of your comfort level, and everyone who challenges the Democratic insider narrative.

To build a sustainable non-Trump majority, there needs to be an engagement with the Sanders movement. This invitation is, in my estimation, about such a process of engagement.

And I'm not sure it's the place of either of us, as men, to lecture a women's organization on who they should invite as speaker-especially since I'm fairly sure that you would not only insist that they invite a woman-which is a reasonable thing to at least suggest-but also that they only invite an ally of HRC, and then only one who would perpetuate the "it's Bernie's fault that Hillary's not president, therefore we have a responsibility to never listen to or engage with any of his supporters" thing.

It's time to let 2016 go, steven. The result was caused by a perfect storm and no one change-including Bernie being barred from the Democratic primaries and the primaries becoming a bland, passionless debate-free dead zone like you'd have preferred-would have made any difference.