To the people who keep saying "get over it" about the far-left's sabotage of our nation:

[moriah]

139. Welcome to DU! Enjoy your stay....

I do hope you understand, though, that the OP isn't talking about you.

You supported your favored candidate in the primary, and worked hard for him. Your work made the platform get his stamp -- his high support gave him quite a bit more power than most people not the nominee or VP would usually have in helping craft it.

But after working your best during the primary to influence the party in the direction you preferred -- and despite not getting as much success as you wanted in that, still voted for the Democratic nominee.

You, therefore, aren't a "Bernie or Bust" person. You didn't write him in, or vote for Stein.

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I do have to say I've been in your shoes, though I'd chosen Hillary over Obama because I thought she had more vicarious experience on the national stage about the Presidency, I didn't have any fears that Obama wouldn't know what to do with a 3 AM phone call (terrible ad in a sucky primary). My vote for Obama was easy in the General, I didn't have to be won over or coaxed. Even if McCain wasn't the worst Republican in the world. And the people that didn't rally around the Democratic nominee were rightly castigated.

In this election, even though you had far more mixed emotions about the Democratic nominee than I did in 2008, you also recognized Trump/Pence was, for good reason, being joked about being what John the Revelator was being warned about with the word "trumpets".

Until we get IRV, the best we can do is what you did. Fight for getting the nominee and the platform issues you want, then vote Democratic in the General.

I'm certain the poster can confirm s/he wasn't talking about people, like you, who are intelligent enough to realize this no matter how terrible a primary battle we have.