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In reply to the discussion: You're going to need people like me in 2020 [View all]brer cat
(24,771 posts)out of your user name; you are all mirage. You call gothmog "terribly divisive and defeatist" for a post based on FACTS while ignoring the divisiveness of your own blackmail OP which is based on nothing but your highly inflated vision of your own importance. Bernie may be your sun, but the real world and the Democratic Party doesn't and won't revolve around him or his supporters. Making this OP may have stroked your ego, but to the rest of us it only demonstrates your total lack of political acumen. The real base of the Democratic Party, our most loyal and reliable constituency, rejected Bernie in 2016 and will do so again if he runs in 2020. You are welcome to join our big tent and work within it, but no one is going to beg you to come in and take over.