How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"?

[Ken Burch]

74. I don't want anyone kowtowed to.

What I wanted was for the fall campaign(and this could have been done with Hillary as nominee, and pretty much with our 2016 platform-adding specific "no TPP" language is the only change I called for, and no one in the party would have been harmed by that.) to have engaged the passion the Sanders supporters brought to the contest-to say to his supporters, especially his younger supporters who are still in the process of trying to decide whether to be involved in political work "you didn't get your candidate nominated, but you got a lot of things you wanted into the platform and you made a difference. If you want to keep making a difference, you can do so by working with us". And I wanted that NOT because I wanted anyone treated as a "special snowflake", but because we needed the votes of those who abstained. Reaching out to them would have increased our vote total and wouldn't have done any harm to anyone already in the party or cost us any existing voters. It wouldn't have disrespected Hillary. It would simply have been good politics.

Why is it so abhorrent to you to suggest we should ASK people, ALL people, for their votes, rather than demanding them and simply expecting people to fall in line? What is so threatening about treating support from young voters as a thing we should want and actively seek? It's as though you think running a positive campaign rather than saying "you HAVE to vote for us-the other side is evil" is the equivalent of giving up our dignity as a party.

And I have stood up. Over and over again. I don't have to say "everyone on the left was simply OBLIGATED to support our ticket, no matter what, because Trump". I tried over and over to persuade people to vote Hillary-I proved my loyalty.

It simply couldn't have increased our fall support anywhere if Hillary had faced no opposition in the primary. We can't grow our party by standing for less and keeping activists even further out in the cold. There never were any "moderate Republicans" who were going to refuse to vote for Trump, because there simply aren't any moderate Republican voters anywhere.

All I'm doing now is trying to help us win in the future. That depends on us boosting our vote total, which we can ONLY do by turning non-voters and third-party voters into Democratic voters. We can gain votes from them...we can't ever win over anyone who's to our right by going "Sistah Souljah" on the left.

And in saying that, I stand wholeheartedly with all who say that Comey should be fired, AND all voter suppression laws must be overturned, AND whatever steps possible must be taken to prevent things like Russian meddling in our election.