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Showing Original Post only (View all)Is it just possible that people who don't believe Sanders can win aren't "afraid" of him? [View all]
Thread after thread and post after post in the past few days has asserted as an article of faith that anyone who doubts Sanders' ability to win the general election must be motivated by fear.
I find that assessment facile and self-serving, as well as a false dichotomy, offering a binary choice between "you must accept that he is a viable candidate" or "you must be afraid of him."
A number of people expressed doubts about Kuchinich's chances back in the day, and they were similarly faulted for their "fear."
If someone can convince me that Sanders is a viable candidate for the general election, then I will happily support him. But simply saying "Barack Obama was a nobody in 2008" is insufficient, because circumstances were very different at that time.
What is gained from the simplistic and off-hand dismissal of sincere and well-informed reservations about Sanders' chances?