I DON'T UNDERSTAND. what is with this Bernie is good/Hillary is bad all the sudden?

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40. He is selling books harder than he campaigned, and I was there in 2008

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as a Hillary supporter, so I know what she and we did for Obama in the general. The closest analog we have to this election occurred in 2000 when Nader played the spoiler for the purists who cast environmental activist and Nobel Peace prize winner Al Gore in the role of "the lesser of two evils"

You don't get to define what I think or what "people like me" prefer. There's lots of spinning going on in certain quarters, but people cannot change uncomfortable facts. Voters who had genuine problems with newly enacted suppression measures were counting on us to do the right thing. (I know this because I spent weekends in PA re-registering voters who had been thrown off the rolls due to new laws that resulted from the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and working out election day voting plans with working class and working poor party members.)

Third party voters and no shows threw this election to the Republicans who came home and voted with their party.

Third party voters and those who were not "inspired enough" to fulfill a civic duty could have been heroes, but they chose to be spoilers. And we all have to live with the consequences.