This is silly...
On the other hand, if those of you who previously supported Senator Clinton wish to be taken seriously in your complaints, I would urge you to stop replaying the primary season. It's over. It's done. Your candidate lost, and no amount of sniping will change that.
Of course we know who won and who lost (duh!), and of course we know nothing will change that (double duh!!). We like to discuss what happened during the primaries just like we like to discuss what happened during the civil war, and during Genghis Khan's conquest of the world, etc...
And no, when we discuss that, it is not exactly a "complaint"...
I would urge you to drop that condescending tone...
I won't drop it. I'm sorry, but I will not. I've seen more than a few posters positively ham it up like there was still some kind of race going on.
MyDD is not a place for therapy, nor is it a place to score self-esteem points for trying to win a flame war when you lost the primary.
To clarify, you may have misunderstood what I meant. I meant that we shouldn't act like this is something we can redo, or that it was some collossal mistake we have to pick apart.
Discussion is fine, in a historical context. It's just not a living thing.
The problem with being perceived as "condescending" is that you lose credibility even before the reader can reflect on your thoughts. Your tone was condescending. For me, as soon as I got to that cited paragraph, well.... The problem is difficult, surely. Yet, when you ask another to engage in dialogue and to feel free to state their position, you really don't get to be offended, alarmed, or upset when a reader takes up the offer and writes what that reader thinks (and feels.) There is an old saying in law: Never ask a question that you don't know the answer to...or that you might not want to hear the answer to. Seriously...grievances by their nature are emotive and, stating them, and freely talking about them may lead to some progress. It may or may not. The key: Don't insult the reader who speaks directly, honestly (and without vulgar or obscene language) in response to your invitation. That is destined to go nowhere fast.
Maybe if you read past the sentence you misinterpreted you'd understand. I'd write a lengthy diary to explain my views to you, but I've fortuitously already done so.
See above.
Many people haven't realized that it's over. That's the agenda of PUMA.
And it seems we haven't acquired the necessary remove from the primary season in order to fairly critique it as of yet. Many people are still too emotional to have truly honest discussions about it. We're still in the process of moving away from our primary season roles, and reminding ourselves that our similarities outweigh our differences.
Personally, I can appreciate so many more people on this site since the primaries have ended. I certainly don't want to resurrect them.
I try to preface some of what i have to say with "i was an obama supporter, so my perspective may be off" particularly when I'm disagreeing with someoen about how hillary might have won if she could have made the sexism charge stick (not against obama, but in general)
