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[raging moderate]

116. Bernie Sanders won my support many years ago.

Bernie Sanders won my support by speaking up for racial equality, fair wages, progressive taxation, infrastructure repair, immigration reform, continuation of WIC and unemployment compensation, universal health care, adequate provisions for our troops, freedom of speech, and educational opportunities. The media had very little to do with it, except in showing him speaking on the floor of the House and then the Senate. I had been noticing him for a very long time before he threw his hat in the ring last year. Of course, I have said before, I will vote for the Democratic nominee, but I want all of my fellow Bernie Sanders supporters to have a chance to vote for him. And I want everyone to think about the points he has raised. Our opponents are crafty and unprincipled, with insidious efforts to corrupt our leaders. Paul Ryan has just launched a new offensive to deregulate the US economy and increase the power of the wealthy corporations. We have some formidable opponents, and it will take all the cooperation we can muster to rein in the Ayn Rand racists we are confronting. When I was working for Eugene McCarthy and my roommate was working for Robert Kennedy, we managed to keep getting along okay. It could happen here, too. Winners should show good sportsmanship even more than losers.

Gratuitous insults against Bernie, like the one you just posted, will do nothing to make Sanders supporters want to cooperate with you. And, by the way, Clinton supporters might also want to drop that silly "elitist" insult against Sanders supporters. It's not true, and it is clearly borrowed from the rightwingers who tried to hang it on the hippies most of whom were not rich. In those days, my fellow hippies and I got a good laugh out of it, which we needed as we struggled against the poverty most of us had been born into. In fact, it still gives me a good laugh! That really helps when I am soothing myself out of a flashback from my poverty childhood with wish sandwiches and a little brother crying from an untreated toothache. Why don't you just show some of the kindness and love that is in some of your sig lines? Hillary Clinton, like me, is a Methodist; I know what our church would want to see here. Just hold your horses and give some people time to think this thing through.