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John G. Ata's avatar

Hi David, I liked your essay since I also think reason, discourse and the meeting of the minds is an important process in any organization striving towards a common goal. But I think it’s a bit more complicated here. We’ve had the primaries and people have voted. But we’re seeing auxiliary tactics being introduced such as large donor withdrawal or threats to sit home and not vote being used to influence the conversation. This is being done knowing that these tactics could very well hurt the goal we say we want from being achieved. This is frankly unconscionable and more of a power struggle instead of working together for a critical goal we all share. It won’t help us and we should know better. Let’s spend our finite energy on things that matter the most in achieving our goal.

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LDass's avatar

You forgot one thing- the voters have spoken. Biden is our nominee. If someone else (schiff) wanted to challenge him they had their chance. I can’t help but notice (as a CA voter) that a large number of these “dump Biden” Dems are from CA and its well known by now that its the DONORS demanding Joe step down. Lofgren literally reps San Jose. Schiff thinks he needs more money as if CA doesn’t already know who he is (or thought we did- he’s bleeding votes as we speak for that senate seat of Feinstein’s). Nancy can’t say anything because she had the nerve to run again at 84 instead of PASSING THE TORCH. So yeah. The voters are PISSED that the DONORS are pushing to negate our VOTES. And WE are not in the room where apparently the decision is being made that we ALREADY made.

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