2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Let this be a lesson to the Democrats..never again welcome non-Democrats into the party to do [View all]karynnj
(60,994 posts)What does it say that rather than whole heartedly enjoying the victories of your candidate that you are filled with anger?
No matter how much you hate Sanders and people who support him, you should recognize that HRC needs the very people you are trashing to win. I do not get the need you and several others have not just to defeat Sanders, which was always a near sure thing, but to destroy him.
There may have been a few who were exuberant that with Obama winning the dominance of the Clintons in the Democratic party was over, but that never reached the fever pitch I see now - and that was extreme compared to past contests. I really saw no similar posts blasting Kuchinich for staying in until the 2004 convention.
Part of going to General Election mode, when we do, realistically has to be to heal the divisions in addition to getting behind the candidate. These attacks hurt that effort.
You and others may succeed in driving out the impure Sanders supporters, but consider if you really want to do that. You need their votes AND they might just represent the long term future of the party. Consider that with a very unlikely nominee, a 74 year old democratic socialist they were in the contest up to the last month of contests. It indicates that there is space for a future race from the left.