2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary reminds the Bernie folks that he wasn't a Democrat until now, and they don't like it. [View all]Depaysement
(1,835 posts)They took his votes when he voted with the Dems in Congress. They admitted him to the caucus. Now he isn't good enough.
They're glad he joined the party and brought those new voters in. But they really don't care about who those new voters want.
Sound familiar? Yes, they only want his voters to vote for who they want and they only want you to vote for who they want.
Other than that the new voters and you - can basically go to hell.
Oh, and by the way, many of Bernie's voters, including me, have devoted considerable time, money and effort to helping Democratic candidates in the past. Many of us have been precinct captains, party committee women and men, candidates, campaign managers and so on. As longtime Democrats, we resent the implication that the candidate we support is not worthy of the nomination because he ran without a D after his name. Indeed, the more I hear of this argument, the less I am inclined to help or even cast a vote for Camp Weathervane if it wins the nomination.