2016 Postmortem

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Who is an extremely divisive figure because of his ongoing attacks in the party and its voters, you're right that we won't be able to come together. It's clear that the interest is not unity but subjugation of the majority of Democrats to a minority who has decided that fealty reward a losing Independent matters more than any policy position or the rights of voters. I can't do anything about people whose politics are subsumed to one man's ambitions. I can only say that I find that entire worldview disturbing. I am a Democrat who believes in democracy, not monarchy or reverence for great men.

The primary is long ago over. That you and others here have decided to define yourself by that one man's ambitions leaves no room for coming together. You have chosen to perpetuate an ugly primary battle that cut across the same racial and gender divisions that the GE fed off of.
You have chosen division and past contentiousness over working for the future if the party. So by all means, make clear that you have allowed one man to supplant all ideology or principle, insist on enforcing fealty toward a failed candidate, but don't pretend you care about unity. No one who cares about that continues to resurrect such a divisive figure and insist citizens have no right to object to him or his opportunism in using the GE defeat to yet again promote himself. Bernie's career is the last fucking thing I care about, and his astonishingly tone deaf comments about the GE shows he has no political or self-awareness.