To Sanders supporters FROM a Sanders supporter: please stop saying Bernie should've got the nom.

[Ken Burch]

75. "If we were" is NOT the same as "we are destined"

I changed the term "dominant" because I realized it was bad phrasing. I don't even like the idea of dominance and probably would have changed that anyway.

I don't approve of the booing of Lewis or what was sent to those groups.

The atmosphere at the convention was the responsibility of both campaigns-while I never defended what some Sanders delegates did there, in my estimation about 90% of that would have been prevented if only the nominee and the incumbent president had done what the overwhelming majority of the party wanted and put "No TPP" into the platform-putting the weasel words about "we oppose trade deals THAT" in instead and then letting Terry McAuliffe imply that Hillary might try to get TPP through after all if elected caused a lot of the bad blood, as well as the pointless, arrogant insistence of the convention organizers that Sanders delegates would not be allowed to stand silently and hold up "No TPP" signs during the acceptance speeches-printed signs were confiscated and Sanders delegates were threatened with loss of credentials if they made their own signs and held THEM silently) I also heard Bernie repeatedly call on his delegates to cool it. The fact was, it wasn't possible to prevent what happened, due to the heavy-handedness on that issue. Both sides caused what happened, bad as it was.

Two words in the platform...two words "No TPP", and a landslide victory would have been a certainty. The Upper Midwest would have been a lock What Comey did would not have mattered.

So I condemn the disruption...AND with equal passion I condemn what caused it.

It's incomprehensible to me that, in a thread where I was calling on Sanders to be less divisive, you would show up to perpetuate division and to imply that I have some sort of conspiratorial secret intent or that the Sanders movement is some sort of evil cabal seeking to persecute everyone else in the Democratic Party. It's simply a group of young(and not-so-young) activists trying to get the party to address some issues we hadn't dealt with, and to address them without reducing our emphasis on the issues we have recently prioritized in the slightest.



I really didn't have any intent other than to urge other Sanders supporters to stop using a divisive talking point.