With Scalia's death, I hope this puts the 2016 primaries into perspective
I stopped reading DU several months ago because of the vitriol. I'm a Hillary Clinton supporter, but I like Bernie Sanders and I will fight like hell to get him elected if he is the nominee. The discussions here had become so overwhelmingly nasty though that reading them tended to dampen my enthusiasm for this election. Mind you, I've always been more of a reader and less of a poster, because I really enjoyed the conversations here until the primary season started. I guess I'm sort of a Clarence Thomas at DU.
But I hope that now, with the United States Supreme Court in the balance, and it with it now abundantly clear that, if we win the election, we will finally have the chance to overturn Citizen's United, restore voting rights, and ensure that gay rights and women's rights are protected, we can finally put away the infighting and stop attacking our candidates and focus on what matters: Electing a Democrat. Both of our candidates have made it clear that any Supreme Court nominee of theirs must be prepared to overturn Citizens United. And that would change everything.
We have the chance to upend the entire system with either one of our candidates. Fight FOR your candidate, but stop fighting against the other. Whoever wins the nomination, we must fight like hell to make sure they win the presidency. Because when that happens, progressives will, for the first time in over half a century, have the upper hand when it comes to the Supreme Court and the system will see a seismic shift.
The games and infighting need to end. Today.
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