Since Biden is already our candidate, I wish to submit suggesting otherwise is dissing Democrats

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38. To quote the Democratic governor of Illinois

"This is an important conversation to have."


The reason it is important to discuss this topic here is because it is currently being discussed in a way that has grave, mainstream implications for the Democratic Party (whether we like it or not), and this forum is a place for Democrats to have important and nuanced conversations about things that profoundly affect the Democratic Party.


I have been a member of DU since 2007, and I remember when the "support the nominee" rule was first adopted. It was adopted for the purposes of curtailing the NON-mainstream (and frankly, meanspirited) attacks on the presumptive nominee at the time, Barack Obama, by a group of Hillary Clinton supporters who called themselves "PUMAS."

While I will personally support Joe Biden with all of my heart and soul for as long as he is our nominee, the "support the nominee" rule was not meant to silence uncomfortable discussions taking place within mainstream media to the point that party leaders like Nancy Pelosi and James Clyburn are having to go on nationally televised news programs to address it. It was meant to stop petty trolls who couldn't get past tumultuous primaries.