2016 Postmortem

so many of the pro-Sanders posts?! Seriously, take another look at what's been happening here.

Bernie is out there now, fighting tRump with op-ed, speeches, working on legislation... when these good-for-the-country actions are reported here, you hijack the threads by trashing him/his supporters. Do you not see this? Want us to just sit there and not respond with our own strongly held beliefs about "the truth?" We see things very differently and regardless of your beliefs, it's not an inferior truth.

Do you seriously expect that his supporters will not respond to all the OPs that spew vicious rhetoric against him? If you do expect it, why participate, if the resulting exchanges bother you so much? You seriously believe that tearing him (and us) down will somehow vanquish the loss we all share?

Seriously, if you can't see that you are stoking the very fires that you're objecting to (and that are making you feel badly), please consider it as a possibility for how to shift this place into more of a united community. We all have to move on together for the good of the party. Not just you and yours, but all of us, and if you would commit to no attacks on Sanders for 2 weeks I'll bet you $10 it gets more comfortable for you, as well, because we won't need to step up in defense of our own principled passion for him. We need to be fighting the Orange Ogre.

Personally, I would love to see a thread or two in this forum where we try to unify without any angry rhetoric posts. Where we try to just see what's real in a shared vision kind of way.