There were no insults to black voters.

Also, it's absurd to think that Pete Buttugieg, who joined the pre-Super Tuesday pile-on Bernie did nothing to deserve, who virtually spat the word "socialism" in Bernie's face as if it were a despicable term, who was more hawkish on military policy than any other primary candidate, in a year when there was no good reason for any Democrat to run as a militarist, was somehow more deserving of progressive support than Sanders simply because of the happenstance of his sexual orientation.

And it's not even about whether Bernie should have been the nominee-I myself had mixed feelings about the idea of his running again after his campaign was smeared-with no justification whatsoever-as indifferent to the antiracist cause in 2016-this despite the fact that the most progressive candidate in any contest can always be assumed to be the most antiracist and antioppression- its that the party had four years, after 2016, to start engaging the young people who had worked for Bernie, trying to find common ground with them and, instead of even trying to do that, stayed with its pointless obsession with being "middle-of-the-road" and made it clear that those young progressive activist would essentially never be welcomed in the party.

There was no reason to assume that we could ONLY beat Trump with a bland centrist nominee and by keeping the left and the young totally out in the cold.

And even though any perceptive Democratic Party would wholeheartedly embrace the agenda young, black, and progressive America have won massive support for in the days since George Floyd, the party establishment is STILL keeping its distance from that agenda and is still focused on the not only meaningless but impossible objective of "working across the aisle".

Whatever any of us think of any candidate, why not admit that the moment calls for the Democratic Party to go big and to go bold, to speak with passion and with clarity, and to reject, once and for all, the idea that any apologies need to be made for clearly rejecting the idea that all that can or should be done is tinkering around the edges of edges.

The reality is, the country isn't demanding that Democratic policy be nothing but tiny, trivial increments or that the wishes of corporate donors whose only interest is in avoiding having to make any real personal sacrifice in the name of the greater good?