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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders voters helped Trump become President [View all]Docreed2003
(17,946 posts)The majority of Bernie supporters in the primary supported Hillary in the general. But let's keep on fighting and picking at scabs from 2016 because that seems productive. There are folks here that absolutely hate Bernie because some of his people acted like asses, and at times he levels criticisms on Dems that is headscratchingly misplaced, and I get that...I can also appreciate people who supported Bernie in the primary who want to push the party to the left and don't feel their voice has been heard by the DNC at large, either because they don't understand how liberal the DNC platform was in 2016 or they feel the party was only paying lip service to the platform.
I do think that it's interesting that every time the Dems seem to be uniting against Trump and pushing beyond this episode, a new batch of shit stirring stories come out to further serve to divide and fuel the fires of animosity.
I honestly don't know what it will take to heal the deep seated divisions amongst us on the left, and by that I mean those who would vote and align with democrats. I pray it can happen.