The topic of abortion is getting very heated, and indeed it should. We have a stacked Supreme Court that seems set to reverse precedent to take away women's right to abortion. We need to put our voice and money to trying to make sure that doesn't happen.
Still, let's not be divisive within our own ranks. Had the 2016 election turned out differently, we would not face this dilemma today, but there are a variety of reasons why that happened. I've seen people blasting Bernie supporters from 2016, blaming us for Hillary's loss.
I voted for Bernie in the 2016 primaries and am in no way ashamed of it. I really preferred not to add yet another dynasty to our presidential politics, and I felt Bernie's positions more closely resembled my own.
When Hillary got the nomination, I voted for her in the general election, as did roughly 9 out of 10 Bernie supporters. We were not the reason she lost. She lost because of Russian influence, being savaged by Wikileaks, the electoral college, and taking certain states for granted.
Hillary was not my first choice, but then Biden was not my first or even second choice for the nomination. Still, I voted for both in the general election.
They did some comparisons and found that in 2008, some 25% of Hillary voters in the primaries voted for McCain in the general election, but Obama won anyhow. Clearly more Bernie voters supported Hillary than that.
Let's not spend our efforts attacking each other, but work to defeat those who are working to take rights away from women and others.
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