Three things HRC supporters could do here to make things less toxic here

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71. I'm basically in the same boat

I've been around too long to say that in politics, ANY assumption a year out is nothing more that that. The first Democratic convention I attended was L.A. 1960 as an 8 year old with my dad. The only serious candidate he knew personally was Humphrey, and when I was introduced, my dad told me to say, "hope you get the nomination." I asked him, "what is a 'nomination?'" At age 8, you don't necessarily know this kind of thing.

Some of the tear-downs are obviously heart-felt, but some are obviously contrived and parroting from other sources. Their angry, superior, cutting tone always says more about the one using it than how good their favored candidate is, so I don't let it bother me. Bernie Sanders himself said he knew his campaign would have to disavow some things said by some of his supporters. I think he was only saying what every Democratic candidate has known for years. Republicans seem to be different animals. They seem to live for hyperbole.

But the one that gets my vote in the primary will do so for what they say, not what their supporters (and certainly not their detractors) say on an internet board.

Like Frank Zappa sang, they'll "stomp and smash and bash and crash and slash and bust and burn."

Fine, but it won't influence my primary vote any more than similar language from the Republicans (just wait--the RNC is probably perusing DU for ammunition daily) in the General will influence my vote next November.