One Bernie supporter to others OP/ED

[Brian37]

RationalPoet....... I voted for Bernie too, but most certainly WILL vote for Hillary. There is too much at stake to allow as Obama aptly put it describing Trump as a "homegrown demagogue" to be in the Oval Office. If anyone wants to get stuck on Hillary, remember Nixon broke the law in a far worse manor. Reagan as well with Iran/Contra with several of his supporters convicted. And Bush Jr started two failed wars, one based on a blatant lie, which caused countless military and civilian lives. And Bush had far more attacks on diplomatic outposts with far more deaths. You can point to Hillary's problems all you want, but knowing how Obama was attacked even before he took office I have no doubt the same level of vitriol would be aimed at Bernie if he had won instead, but simply with different language. Bernie, has said Hillary would STILL be 1,000 times better than Trump, even on her worst day. And I cannot see how you can claim to support him, which I do myself, watch the convention knowing he sat through the vote count and graciously conceded to Hillary and threw his full support behind her, the same convention that had Obama and Michelle support her. Bernie knows and accepts what is at stake, which is why he did what he did and he is right to do so. A Trump presidency would allow him control of a majority congress and Supreme Court picks. That would mean attacks on women's rights, attacks on LGBTQ rights, overturning the ACA, overturning Roe V Wade, more gerrymandering discrimination against minority voters............ But the worst part of Trump's nomination is not just the possibility of undoing social progress, no, it is Trump's political demagoguery which is a carbon copy of WW2 Germany. His pandering to the segregation of the Jim Crow era refusing to condemn bigots is horrible. His pandering to the Cold War McCarthyism is also vile. Trump has gone way beyond the political muckraking that has existed since the founding. He has called Mexicans rapists, made fun of a disabled reporter, called captured Veterans losers, praised Putin and thinks we should mimic the brutality of Saddam as well as being endorsed by North Korea. Trump is a textbook narcissist and sociopath opportunist. Now is not the time for progressives to be divided. I think it is important to keep in mind this quote from a founder, "We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin.