Bernie Sanders is the big reason why I support Bernie Sanders
After watching supporters of all candidates be really rude, I've got to say that I am proud of my decision to support the candidate I think will do a better job as POTUS.
If Bernie is nominated:
He's already doing better against Republicans
No rightward turns
Constant infomercials for true, progressive values
Speaking against moneyed power, rather than representing it
Awareness campaign about those who buy politicians
Democratic victory, not only on the top of the ticket but also on the bottom
I have zero desire to base my vote off some grudges against supporters.
Bernie Sanders is why I support Bernie Sanders.
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liking or disliking a candidate based on his/her platform and credibility trumps infantile grudges? Who'd a thunk? 
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since the 90s every household (excepting, perhaps, the $200,000-a-year-plus "gentry"
knows someone
- railroaded by the for-profit jails
- holding off on treatment because $1,000 would break the bank (to the point of waking everyone up with their sobs during an attack)
- unemployed for years on end
- racking up $40K in debt (plus a few 10Ks more in interest) only so they can buy a "ticket" to a $40K job
- a veteran who doesn't want to talk about what they did or what was done to them
Clinton's campaign has thus painted itself into a corner: it's still trying to run a GE campaign against the GOP nominee (as opposed to GOP policies) and to appeal to all sectors and groups at once, but all it can say is "if you want to keep everything going great in your life, don't vote for that pinko, he'll upset the whole system!" they've spent 25 years saying that America's adequately represented by the political stratum and that their interests line up
and on top of it the party's been playing Big Nurse the whole time: "see? your Naderite hankering gave us Bush! now let's get his war and billionaire tax cuts passed in a Dem Senate!" "no, no, you can't have a primary, you'll hurt yourself!" "Lieberman is a better candidate than Lamont--why? because I said so. Go to your room" "you're just not adult enough to understand Obama's clever plans" "no, you can't have any more debates, you'll get a political tummyache"
the impression is they want to roughly wipe our noses, help us put our jammies on, and put us to bed so they can get some goddamned WORK done for once
whenever there's a stinker of a policy or a war in the making the hall monitors are out in force telling us to STFU and that we'll destroy everything America's worked for, and people are pretty tired of a party that does that to its own members--that we're just employees that have to be kept in line
