2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Susan Sarandon has a great locale for your next workers' council meeting. [View all]unapatriciated
(5,390 posts)many of Sanders supporters are new to voting or have always been Indys. If the Clinton campaign chooses to marginalize them it will come at a very high cost. I personally think they are waiting until after the convention to woo them into the fold and that may be to late. HRC's campaign knows that the majority of the long term registered d's who now support Sanders will vote d in the GE.
If our party wants to stay relevant, we will have to grow our party by inclusion of new young voters. We will not achieve this by shutting their voices and concerns out. Suppression is never a good thing.
As far as your statement
"These are the same emoprogs who railed against President Obama, and look where it got them. They are marginal and ever so they shall remain, because they are the extreme."
I'm not a newbie either. There were many HRC's supporters who "railed" against Obama in 2008. We also had many on this board who "railed" against Clinton, making some pretty vile statements. Now they make vile statements about Sanders to show how much they support Clinton.
I have been involved since I was a teenager (1965) and do not consider many of Sanders policies to be extreme. Sorry you feel that many of us long term dems, are ruining the party. We have for many years fought for civil rights, workers rights, women's rights and will continue to do so. Our party platform has always been about what was good for our fellow man. Now we are no longer wanted and FDR's dreams and accomplishments are too extreme for the party we help build.