2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you're thinking of voting third party this fall, please reconsider. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Who actually think a Trump victory would serve the cause they claim to support(btw, it's likely that at least some of that sort of posters are paid provocateurs of the Trump campaign.
What I'm saying is, you can't ever change people's votes by denouncing them, belittling their feelings and otherwise insulting them. No one in history has ever been won over by saying "you're silly if you vote that way".
Why even try?
Do we have the LUXURY of trying?
Is there any evidence at all that that kind if talk would win anyone ELSE over to the Clinton-Kaine ticket.
And if it still angers you that people feel that way about Bernie and not about our current nominee...you might want to consider what it is about the candidate people such as yourself insisted was the person we HAD to nominate if we didn't want to go down in flames, the person the party acted in unnecessarily heavy-handed ways to make sure was nominated, the person many of you insisted was only opposed because some progressives didn't care about bigotry or couldn't handle the election of a woman(claims you knew were untrue) that might be CAUSING them to feel less than enthusiastic about her. She will be a good president, and I support her wholeheartedly, but it would do her campaign and all who support it a lot of good to take stock of why some of the resentment lingers(btw, if you still don't think I'm committed to the ticket, pm me and I'll send you the link to the hate mail I got when I asked -not even banned, just respectfully asked-posters on the Pro-Bernie Facebook page I run to not post in support of Stein. You'd have thought I'd confessed to drop-kicking newborn puppies!). Steps could be taken to address that.
She doesn't have to try and BE Bernie, but she should be listening to the better lessons his campaign taught and continuing to incorporate them into a coalition pitch for victory. She did that at the convention but it still needs to be part of the message.