Let's adhere to one principle...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

It is not fair to hold individuals responsible for the behavior of his or her group, in anything. That is a hallmark of liberalism.

I am apoplectic with the disruptors but not all the supporters of Bernie Sanders are disruptors.

And Bernie is doing everything he can to quell them.

[sarae]

1. K&R!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I loathe the disruptors. They are threatening us and our future!

But we need to careful in striking out that we don't hit a friend.

[Still In Wisconsin]

3. As a Bernie supporter, THANK YOU.

These people- these protesters- make me want to vomit.

Bernie himself requested NO PROTESTS. Who the feck do they think they are. They are making ALL of us (Bernie supporters) look like jerks and tools of the right. I am beyond disgusted.

[Peacetrain]

4. Yes and Yes!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. They can disrupt, protest all they want but not here and not now.

[TheKentuckian]

9. You counter by flushing the Turd Way and supporting second Bill of Rights candidates

[Doctor Jack]

6. "Not all the supporters of Bernie Sanders are disruptors". I would say most aren't

There is a small minority of Sanders supporters that are too passionate to see past this one moment. They may feel this is the ultimate battle for the soul of the Democratic Party but there are a million more battles to come and all they are doing is damaging their own brand. Screaming random things during speeches is going to make it impossible to know what they want and its going to turn off a lot of people that may have been sympathetic to their cause.

[mcar]

7. Sen Sanders deserves credit

for his actions today.

[SticksnStones]

10. But DWS is responsible for the emails of her subordinates?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. The latter... She took one for the team.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512289210

[SticksnStones]

13. Just pointing out the incongruity

Sanders isn't responsible for the behavior of the people on his team but DWS is...?


I give her credit for taking one for the team.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. "Life isn't fair" and it would get a hell of a lot more unfair if Herr Drumpf won.

[WillyBrandt]

12. All props to Bernie. But we have our fringe too.

Back when the Republicans were semi-sane -- say, the Eisenhower years -- top GOP leaders had the wisdom to know that McCarthy and the John Birchers were malignant and needed to be kept under leash.

Unfortunately, we need to acknowledge that we have that ourselves. To 98% of Democrats the stakes are clear -- fascism or democracy -- but there is a childish 2% that is in love with their own resentment.

I wish Bernie and his (very largely sane) supporters every success in engaging with and to a real extent transforming the Democratic Party. But to the other 2% -- the ones for whom politics is theater, and for whom the soliloquy never ends -- well, they can go to hell.