Who should have been the democratic party nominee for president?

[Ken Burch]

70. Appeasement is a totally inappropriate term.

For one thing, it equates the Sanders movement with the Third Reich. For another, it implies that what we were fighting for was unacceptable in American politics and decent society. What I'm actually talking about is respect-respect is important in building political alliances.

If Bernie had been nominated, I'd have spent the whole fall urging the Sanders campaign and Sanders supporters to treat Hillary and her supporters with respect-to strongly address the issues they prioritized(issues Sanders supporters all agreed with Hillary supporters about anyway-if you're on the left, you're GOING to be a committed anti-oppression activist, that is simply part of the thing) and to make sure they knew they would have a say in what Bernie did as president. I'd have called for THAT sort of partnership too. Would you have objected to my doing that if that situation had existed?

And this election proved anything, it proved that it never works to simply DEMAND that people vote. The appeal must be positive.