I haven’t seen this at all — I see Bernie and his representatives in the Unity Reform Commission trying to improve the Democratic Party by ending the entrenchment of superdelegates, by making expenditures transparent, and on political issues, dragging them towards environmental sustainability, social justice, populism and human rights.

I hear that you try to differentiate “extreme” Bernie supporters from rational ones, but you also say you are attacked just for laying out facts and your claim that anyone associated with Bernie is trying to destroy, not repair and salvage, the Democratic Party is opinion, not a fact.

To me, the “extreme” Bernie supporters are those who voted for Trump in the general election. Then there are those who voted Stein or didn’t vote for HRC to block Trump who I would call unwise but perhaps overly purist or principled (depending on what state they are in). These are both tiny fractions of Bernie supporters whose importance was magnified by the close margins in PA, MI, WI (where ballot anomalies have already been discovered).

So as a “rational” Bernie supporter, I can assure readers — I do not see any logic in Bernie or Hillary supporters attacking each other. Joy Reid is an example of someone causing division just when we should be uniting over an anti-corruption platform. She of course, is paid by Comcast who donated heavily to HRC.

If you are a Democratic voter fighting FOR fossil fuels, FOR privatizing education, FOR dark money, against organized labor, against single payer and against the flood of new voters Bernie is bringing into the party, I’d suggest you wake up and smell the coffee.

Bernie and Hillary both made enormous mistakes in 2016 — Hillary needed to cut ties with Wall Street, fossil fuels and billionaire donors like the Waltons to win over the 46% who did not vote (young people, independents and disillusioned Republicans). Bernie did not expand quickly enough to be compete against the 20% advantage Hillary had through the superdelegates and ended up being unable to convince about 5–10% of his hardcore followers to vote for the lesser evil.

The lesson for 2020 is that both sides need to make corrections and come together. Of course there are saboteurs coming from all directions, but if we let that stop us from defeating Trump, we deserve everything we get.

For this author I would advise not generalizing groups like Bernie supporters. If you want to persuade anybody, don’t attack them, offer them something positive. And the same goes for Trump supporters who we might think made a horrible, horrible mistake — we need to understand that attacking Trump or attacking them only makes them more defensive. The solution is offering something better, like healthcare for all and raising taxes on multibillionaires.