The Bernie Support bashing in this forum is disgusting!

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22. Tell that to the people obsessed with conspiracy theories about the primary

They are the ones who have decided that all that matters is their endless blaming of a nefarious cabal for Bernie's defeat. I am pointing out that their doing so communicates quite clearly their complete disregard for the votes and hence the voting rights of the Democratic majority. That particularly primary contest has been over for ages. I hadn't even thought about it quit some time, but some are intent on refighting it and in doing so communicate their absolute disregard for the votes of the 16 million Democrats who had the audacity to vote for someone besides Sanders. That attack on equal voting rights is something that endures beyond one contest. The effort to discount the votes of women, people of color, the elderly, and disabled began but did not end during the primary. I don't give a shit how obsessed they are with a politician. Voting rights matter. Equal rights matter, and the determination to hold one man above those rights is antithetical to Democratic or progressive values. I will not stand silent in the face of it, anymore than I will when the GOP does so. They claim to know what the the future of the Democratic party should be, yet the future they want hinges on the erasure of our votes and with them our rights.

So no. I will not move on from protecting voting rights so a few self-entitled people can continue to argue that the majority of women and people of color are too stupid to vote, that we were manipulated, or that our votes shouldn't even count at all. Whichever political figure they use to mount that attack on equal rights is irrelevant. They fact they seek to do so is deplorable.