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Letter: This Lib-Prog says: Wrong to support Hillary
Op-Ed · October 06, 2016
A manifest confession of having been right and praying to be able to continue to rise above it:
As a liberal-progressive Democrat I long ago got convinced while keeping bad company with myself that it was hardest for me to forgive and forget when I was most right, and much easier to fess up and try to make amends when wrong. Regardless, in a group-think way some long-standing members of my Democratic Party don’t care to admit that they made one hell of a bad mistake in insisting on the nomination of Hillary Clinton. Their error is akin to the backward thinking of the most reactionary of right-wing fanatics who also cannot see and thus admit that they too were wrong in insisting on Donald Trump.
So what do all of us Bernie-or-Bust folks that were on caucus night more right than wrong now do? Make the best of a bad situation by getting over having been right, muster some saintly forgiveness for dumb-s--- party members that insistently nominated a Republican light, Hillary Clinton, and work to get her elected in a landslide that can be used to restore some give-and-take that must go back-and-forth in government of the people, by the people and for the people to best serve all the people.
However, all of those that were really right on caucus night will have to do what they think best. Let us all hope that we do not suffer someone’s pristine right so thoroughly that none of us gives a damn about right from wrong in a hell on Earth. Myself, I am having a Hillary sign put up in my yard — I’ll be damned if I am going put it up. And if possible I would find some fellow Bernie-or-Bust folks and nice Republicans to work with to get her elected.
As for any of Hillary’s most fanatically wrong supporters at the start and still content to so be, please stay a bit out of my face for if I were to become convinced that Hillary Clinton was totally like some of her most insistent supporters I would not vote for her come hell and scalding water. Ouch! I wonder if scalding is one of the enhancing additions Donald Trump is considering to make to plain old-fashioned waterboarding?
Sam Osborne
West Branch
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