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In reply to the discussion: Supporting the values of the Sanders movement is not "refighting the primaries". [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Not Bernie himself.
I only mentioned his name in the OP to reference the group that backed his campaign and work for their ideals now.
I have dropped 2016 and everyone knows it. I proved I dropped it when I endorsed Hillary before the convention.
There's a difference between talking about that and fighting for that campaign's ideals.
Why is that so hard to accept?
We can't win of nothing of those ideas survives in this party...and that's what the people who keep throwing the "refighting the primaries" lie around are trying to do. They want to make this a party where nothing and no one to the left of our 2016 platform are included here at all.
And I agree with you about working for the 2018 elections. There's no conflict between that and continuing to fight for change within the party. We need change to renew and recover.
If I don't talk about ideas, I've stopped being a progressive.