The fringe left problem [View all]

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Abraham Lincoln once said that a house divided against itself cannot stand. After a divisive primary campaign and losing the 2016 presidential election, we see that his words are true.

Obviously, the 2016 primaries were bitter and drawn out. Bernie refused to concede earlier even though it was clear he was not going to surpass Hillary’s lead. He gave his supporters false hope and continued to solicit tens of millions of dollars in donations. Donations that went to waste. I could understand why his supporters were angry and disappointed. What’s worse is that there wasn’t enough time to heal those negative emotions since Bernie took the primaries to the very last state.

Here is the fringe left problem. All throughout the primaries some of Bernie’s supporters threatened that they would not vote for Hillary if she won the nomination. Even if she won fairly. We read their posts. Bernie or bust (BOB) they said. You need us to win they said. They would and did burn down our house if we did not vote for their candidate even though he lost handily.

So how do we deal with such political blackmail in the future? In this primary contest we rejected Bernie by approximately four million votes. Generally speaking, the Democratic Party is not extremely liberal. LIFELONG and popular democrats such as Hillary, Obama, and Biden are centrists. We are likely going to nominate someone with similar political views which is going to piss off the fringe left.

Suppose they run Bernie again or someone like him in the 2020 election and we reject that candidate? They are a minority, but as we experienced last month there are enough of them to cost us another election if they to sit out.

Do you have any ideas to prevent this tragedy from happening again?

One more thing. I do not believe the BOBs are the only reason we lost this election. There are plenty of others, but I am just focusing on the divide in our party that helped lead to the fuhrer’s election.