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In reply to the discussion: Imagine if, rather than blaming the "far left", (whatever you think that is), [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)His supporters are just as anti-racist and anti-oppression as HRC supporters
If there was any dismissal, it was solely by Bernie the individual. And I agree with you that HE got it wrong.
They couldn't be held responsible for what he said after the election was over, for God's sakes. At that stage, there was no longer a campaign.
And what they defended was his commitment to economic justice. A lot of them(and before Philly I was one)were pushing for the campaign to speak out more strongly on social justice. They couldn't just break with him in March and give up on getting economic justice issues into the campaign at all. It was almost impossible to communicate with his campaign HQ in the period when such communications would have made a difference.
It's time to move on as far as the supporters themselves are concerned.