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We Don’t Have to Butt Heads Over Bernie
Citizen 1: “Come the revolution, we will all have peaches and cream!”
Citizen 2: “But I don’t like peaches and cream.”
Citizen 1: “Come the revolution you will like peaches and cream.’
You can’t go your own way
Sanctity of opinion is no longer respected
It has become a bit of a fashion within the Democratic Party lately to find and expose non-Bernie Democrats and to suggest that they are somehow less than credible voters because they don’t or won’t jump on the Sander’s train. I have seen some of the most demeaning language thrown our way by fellow Democrats who seem to have lost all sense of comity and appreciation for our divergent positions on Sander’s platform.
It is as if their decision to vote for Bernie elevates them to an intellectually superior place in the polling booth. As if their fears for the future of the nation — as it exists today and as it may not exist tomorrow — are unique to them and therefore nobler because they are going to place their bets on Sanders and not Biden. The damage that attitude is doing to the Democratic Party, and to individual Democrats like me, will be irreparable…
