2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Post removed [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)Hillary WON the primaries. Sanders supporters were required to accept that EVEN AFTER reports of consistent interference by DWS and the DNC. And we did for the good of the party and the threat of a Trump presidency. Any so-called Bernie "supporter" that turned and voted for Trump was never a true Democrat in the first place and would never have voted for her regardless. And if there were any their numbers were greatly exaggerated.
Most were like Sarah Silverman, who was behind Hillary early on and was excited about the possibility of the first female President, but when Sanders burst onto the scene with his wonderful long needed platform that would have moved the country into the modern age and caught up with the rest of the liberal democracies in the world, she recognized this as "something better came along" with Bernie.
And then when it was clear that Hillary was the winner, and Sanders himself conceded, she put her full support behind Hillary, as did the vast majority of Sanders supporters. And she went further and told the more vocally angry Bernie backers to "just stop it" at the convention.
Now bitter folks like you come along afterwards and kick the losing candidate and by proxy, his supporters when they are down. Down not from Sanders losing, but like all of us, down because of the impending doom of a Trump presidency.