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A Message from a Hillary Clinton Supporter to a Bernie Sanders Supporter (Hillary Group)
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A Message from a Hillary Clinton Supporter to a Bernie Sanders Supporter
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Glad so many people are seeing and saying what we've been saying for months! Thanks Lisa Agent 0825!! 
For the record, many of these superdelegates are those same “down-ticket” Democrats he hasn’t raised any money for. It’s a little hard for him to sell that they should support his candidacy when he doesn’t seem overly eager to help them.
Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/message-hillary-clinton-supporter-bernie-sanders-supporters/
Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/message-hillary-clinton-supporter-bernie-sanders-supporters/
I was just about to post the same article. You beat me to it, fair and square! 
One of many excellent excerpts:
I’m realistic about politics and politicians. While I support Hillary Clinton, and I would support Bernie Sanders if he wins the nomination, I don’t worship either one. When I see rabid Clinton or Sanders supporters, while I admire their zeal, I always find it a bit absurd to be overly infatuated with a politician – any politician.
But it’s amazing how so many Sanders supporters have tried to “shame” me for being a Clinton supporter. I’ve been called a Republican, a fake progressive, a hack, a sellout and all sorts of other insults simply for supporting one of the most admired women in the world. Someone who’s not nearly as bad as many of the more radical Sanders people think she is. Though when you wrap yourself up inside of the “Bernie bubble,” where you’re following propagandists like H.A. Goodman or other anti-Clinton liberals (many of these people aren’t pro-Sanders as much as they’re simply anti-Clinton), you’re often inundated with a never-ending stream of “Clinton is the devil, Sanders is the next coming of Jesus Christ” themed stories that, over months, almost amount to indoctrination.
That’s pretty much what this primary has turned into. It’s Hillary Clinton supporters, who are a-typical, every-single-election type of voters and Democrats vs. a wave of idealism, idealists and people who’ve become infatuated with a movement and a presidential candidate. A movement that, quite honestly, is more fiction than reality. I’m sorry Sanders folks, but how can you rationally continue to talk about “political revolutions” when your candidate is down more than 200 delegates; is behind over 2 million votes; and voter turnout in nearly every state is down from 2008?
But it’s amazing how so many Sanders supporters have tried to “shame” me for being a Clinton supporter. I’ve been called a Republican, a fake progressive, a hack, a sellout and all sorts of other insults simply for supporting one of the most admired women in the world. Someone who’s not nearly as bad as many of the more radical Sanders people think she is. Though when you wrap yourself up inside of the “Bernie bubble,” where you’re following propagandists like H.A. Goodman or other anti-Clinton liberals (many of these people aren’t pro-Sanders as much as they’re simply anti-Clinton), you’re often inundated with a never-ending stream of “Clinton is the devil, Sanders is the next coming of Jesus Christ” themed stories that, over months, almost amount to indoctrination.
That’s pretty much what this primary has turned into. It’s Hillary Clinton supporters, who are a-typical, every-single-election type of voters and Democrats vs. a wave of idealism, idealists and people who’ve become infatuated with a movement and a presidential candidate. A movement that, quite honestly, is more fiction than reality. I’m sorry Sanders folks, but how can you rationally continue to talk about “political revolutions” when your candidate is down more than 200 delegates; is behind over 2 million votes; and voter turnout in nearly every state is down from 2008?
