I am sorry Bernie folks

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I would note that these types of issues are designed to divide the Democrats against each other, which is why the Russians may be promoting the idea of a Sanders campaign- because he is the most controversial candidate in the Democratic Field. Democrats attacking Sanders is exactly what the Russians want. So when we in the Democratic Party fight against each other, we are doing what the Russians want. The answer to this is solidarity with whichever candidate wins the Nomination, we unify behind that person.

And before the nomination is certain, we should be careful about how we compete with one another. A lot of the anti-Bernie rhetoric is similar to some Republican talking points. "Socialist" "Can't Win". etc. We should not be doing the Russians job, and Trumps job for them. We should not be trying to fatally wound one of our potential candidates before the general election.

We should have as clean a fight as possible, so that our candidate is not wounded before they even get to go against Trump. And I feel this applies to all of our candidates, even ones I do not like much like Bloomberg. We need to have a fair primary process and not destroy ourselves with in-fighting before we even get to Trump and the General Election. That is what the Russians are trying to get us to do. So, being too divisive in the Democratic Party is in fact part of the goal of the Russian interference.