Enjoy this day or lose the day...your choice DU

I rarely start threads and am usually given to lousy one line quips rather than long winded rants but I've finally had enough of “Democrats” here eating their own.

For years I've thought it would be great if a woman or person of color (of either gender) broke through the “old white man's club” otherwise known as presidential politics and when Hillary and Obama became the final two candidates left standing this year I marveled that I lived long enough to see the day. For weeks I did a daily flip-flop. Hillary on Monday because she said something wise on Sunday, Obama on Tuesday because of what he said on Monday. My heart was torn and filed with joy at the same time because of the quandary I was in.

Slowly I drifted to my candidate of choice because of negativity coming from one side. As a neutral to a certain point I don't think my vision was clouded by partisanship towards either candidate but came from honest assessment.

Then I started to see the same negativity coming to DU and coming in mountains made largely out of molehills.

DUer's please stop and look in the mirror and look at what will come if the Democratic party splits. We have numbers here, that alone, could not swing a general election but we all have a voice beyond DU and if we use that voice against our own best interests others will hear and follow.

Sour grapes make lousy wine, gloating makes lousy wine taste all the more bitter. Stop both!

Revel in the day we find ourselves in! Don't let bitterness win the day.

I cannot be the only person that has wished for this day and I cannot be the only one that is disappointed in the behavior of some of my fellow Democrats.

Leave your sexism at the login screen. Leave your racism there also. Even if you don't think you are being a racist or a sexist make a conscious effort to purge your posts of anything which might smack of hatred of “the other” anyway, you might even be surprised at what your own words say back to you upon reflection.

Leave the personal invectives at the door as well. Think of who that serves. It serves only the haters.

We have a chance, whoever wins this primary battle, to make history and to change the winds of history but if we remain split we remain vulnerable both personally and as a party to becoming an asterisk in a history book written by the likes of Karl Rove and George Bush.

Enjoy this chance, take joy in our Democratic diversity and most of all take that joy to Denver and then to America in November.

Let's win the day as a united Democratic Party.

Let's win this day as proud progressives and liberals united to make America and the world a better place.

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