2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: evolution. i hear people scoff, about clinton daring to evolve. well... lol, i see [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Nominating Bernie Sanders would not be "destruction of the democratic party" or whatever. If he wins the primary, he will be the Democratic nominee. If someone else wins, it is reasonable to expect DU to support that person. as long as he's running as a Democrat and is part of our party's process, he is on our team. If he were to lose and go 3rd party, he would be in Nader territory, but I've seen no indication he would do that. (Trump, OTOH, might, and that would be a big win for us)
I dont believe Hillary's supporters are bad people, nor do I believe that Sanders's are. i dont believe either group, on DU at least, wishes for "the destruction of the Democratic party". Some people may have different VIEWS of what the party should stand for (to say the least!) but primaries are how we hash those things out.
I think some people here are fighting demons in their own heads which have zero to do with actual political reality.
The stuff you've got about people thinking Sanders is some kind of magic savior pretty closely echoes some of the more noxious crap HRC threw at Obama in 2008- you know, rainbows and unicorns. Which was pretty ironic, coming from someone who ran on "inevitability" and little else.
Lastly, yes, Hillary has "evolved" on things like marriage equality and certainly "evolving" is better than not evolving. But she doesnt get to erase history, and the people who never needed to evolve, still get credit for being right on those issues first.