If they would have kept things about differences between them regarding issues in their overall campaign (and had not hired a sleaze merchant / hatchet man) like David Brock to spread disinformation, lies, insults, and general FUD from the start, party unity would be a complete no brainer, as it stands, they will largely have to rely on the dislike of Trump (second only nationally outside of the Democratic party to Clinton whose numbers and trust issues are groundbreakingly bad) to achieve what will likely largely rather than completely be a unified party in the end.
There are other things they've failed to consider, many of Bernie Sanders Supporters had been apathetic to politics or are new to the idea of being politically active, the former because of disillusionment with a rigged Washington establishment, and the latter, new younger voters and have largely joined as his supporters ONLY because of his known honesty and consistency and the belief that he would (not necessarily accomplish all his goals) but would fight like hell to accomplish them rather than flip fop once vin office. Many often also believe that he wold start any negotiations to get laws passed from a point representing the top point (or a little above realizing with compromise one must lower a bit) rather from the center point where compromise should end negotiating down from there as is usually the case with the Centrist branch of the party.
There are also those that will not be part of party unity because they are liberals that the party has grown to the right of in an extreme way, many that believe in a more FDR, Great Society, Civil Liberty and war against the poor variety that once were the Center of the party and have become Independents since the hard sharp right turn of the party reduced them to what is better described as a slightly more left Rockefeller Republican party. Those independents are not part of "party unity" as they are not part of the party and only came back because Sanders reminds them of the party the were/are loyal to that no longer exists in the form they were loyal to, They had hoped he and his political Revolution would restore the party to what it once was, the peoples party, rather than what it has become, the better of two corporate parties.
Then there are those like myself, that will take more than a new found civility on her campaigns part to get back in the Fold.
I (and I am far from alone) was the victim of election fraud and after 37 years as a faithful registered Democrat that voted straight D Ticket in every election (every two years and every in-between election locally) except for 2002 when I was in the hospital. Had my party affiliation changed from Democrat (as it always had been) to NPA just so I could not vote in my NYS primary!
Normally I would have assumed the fraud was a Republican thing, but no longer believe so and think it was a party thing as I have seen no reports (among the many thousands this happened to in more than one State) of any Clinton voters having had their party affiliation stripped from them.
I speak only for myself on this next bit, but since I am now an Independent (without my consent or even a polite notification of my new status), being an Independent, I take the hint from the party that kicked me out and will vote my conscious, whomever best represents it, rather than as usual until now, Straight Democratic ticket, from now on I will research and vote each separate slot on my ballot and vote my conscience,
it is safe to say I will nearly certainly be voting all Democratic down ticket as I already know my local options quit well, but I have not done due diligence yet regarding the Presidential slot and all the options that will be available to me in Nov. I will vote whichever one best suits my own goals and beliefs, it may or may not be Democrat, such will depend on the records and values of every individual on that portion of my ballot, rather than as usual, automatically Democratic out of party loyalty.
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