What's so terrible about saying "the system is rigged"?

[Ken Burch]

16. It hasn't. Sanders supporters have been just as outspoken about the bogusness of Trump's "victory"

as Clinton supporters. NONE of us wanted Trump to win.

And there was simply wasn't widespread public contentment about the status quo before Bernie got in. If there had been, Bernie could never have taken 43% of the primary vote.

He wasn't supported by people who secretly wanted Trump.

He wasn't supported by people who couldn't handle the idea of a woman being president(the overwhelming majority of Sanders supporters started out as supporters of having Elizabeth Warren run for the nomination...that, by itself, proves that the Sanders movement was not antifeminist and antiwoman). They'd have supported an African American candidate who spoke about economic justice as well as social justice(those in the campaign who were a few years older had already proved that by their support of Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries). And they'd have campaigned just as hard against Joe Biden if he had run(since Biden would have run on the exact same agenda Hillary eventually ran on). If a latter-day Bella Abzug had run(and such a person would have stood on essentially the same platform as Bernie)Bernie's supporters...AND BERNIE...would have supported her.

The Sanders campaign was about the issues. Nothing else. Why are some people here so bound and determined to refuse to accept that? What is so threatening about accepting that?