BFD!!!

[Ken Burch]

62. How about treating Sanders supporters as your equals?

BTW, while Hillary did get nominated(to some degree because Bernie was relentlessly and unjustly accused of not caring about institutional bigotry, an accusation that wasn't withdrawn even after Bernie had done everything he could possibly have done to prove his anti-social oppression commitment) there were a LOT of Clinton supporters who said they actually preferred Bernie's stands on the issues to Hillary's, and the polls showed that most of what Bernie proposed had majority support among the electorate.

You're not entitled to talk down to Sanders supporters or tell anyone to "know their place". The party did it your way this fall and THAT'S why we ended up with Trump scamming his way in.

At the bare minimum, we need to stay as progressive as we were this year to be worth supporting. And we need to build up actual enthusiasm for 2018 and 2020, because this year proved, as had 1988, 2000, 2004 that passion-free campaigns don't give us the turnout we needed to win. We should all be for whatever causes turnout to spike(other than human sacrifices at the polling stations, obviously).

In 2020, the majority will want a chance to vote for peace, for a strong and environmentally sustainable economy, for measures to rein in corporate power, and for an economic policy that puts full employment(the objective that benefits the people the most) over balanced budgets and low inflation(the objectives that benefit the rich will doing nothing for the people). Will you stand in the way of our party nominating someone like that?