It's one thing to ask Sanders people to support the ticket...that's fair and legitimate...

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11. There is another perspective on this

and I saw the exchange that got you upset. Some wanted to attribute the platform to Bernie, and someone responded that it is Hillary's platform. It's a combination of the two, but then a number of people who supported Bernie in the primary never have no idea what Clinton's positions were because they made a point of refusing to read any of them. So a number of the positions attributed to Bernie were Clinton's positions from the beginning of the primary.

You seem to believe that any suggestion to that effect or that Clinton's is advancing her positions is some sort of indictment on Bernie.

There is a gender subtext to all of this: that this historic achievement of a woman finally--after 240 years of our nation--a major party candidate for the presidency is denied her and attributed to a man, as though her own success doesn't even belong to her.

Then there is the fact that after creating a caricature of Clinton for years on end, you're hardly in a position to comment on which positions are in fact hers.

I thought of you during the convention when all those people spoke about Hillary's tireless efforts--both personal and political--on behalf of ordinary people during her entire life, even before she she entered politics. I thought of how the caricature of her that she is only interested in promoting the interests of the wealthy is utterly refuted by her decades long public activism, doing more in any brief period of time than most of us do in an entire lifetime, than most politicians do in an entire lifetime.

She won. You are going to have to come to terms with the fact that you have been wrong about her. You have no idea who she is or what she stands for, and you are frustrated that others don't accommodate your view that everything positive in the Democratic Platform is because of Bernie. It isn't. That's not to say he hasn't had an influence. Of course he has, but this is Clinton's campaign and now her party. That's a success she has earned through hard work-- damn hard work.