FINALLY! Indivisible Asks Candidates To Pledge To Respect The Will Of Democratic Voters

I started making noise that Democratic Voters should force candidates seeking the nomination to run for the Senate and Presidency and other office since the Lieberman Lamont race in Connecticut.   If a person wants the Democratic Voter's nomination, they should be forced to commit to respecting the will of Democratic voters and not run against the person who gets the most votes for the nomination.  The office they are asking to fill, temporarily, is not theirs, it is the Voters' seat, the nomination they are seeking, as well belongs to The Voters not the candidates.

Now that wonderful group, Indivisible has gone farther than that, asking candidates in the Democratic Presidential race to pledge their full and complete support for whichever one of them gets the Democratic nomination for president, they are asking that they encourage their supporters to also make that commitment which in 2020 is more important than it has been because it means defeating Trumpian-Republican-fascism.  

There are several candidates I would find it rather difficult to give my full support but as one representative of Indivisible said,  compared to Trump any of them would be Abraham Lincoln by comparison.  So I'm going to make that pledge.  There are two candidates who I think would actually be more like Millard Fillmore than Lincoln but that would still be better than Trump who will certainly surpass the worst presidents in our history,  Nixon, Reagan, Buchanan, Pierce, Hayes, . . . there have certainly been a lot of really, really awful presidents in our history. But there is little doubt that Donald Trump is the worst of them all. 

The same principle should be applied to nominations contests up and down the ballot.  In 2019 there are no principled Republicans in the Congress, they are all either Trumpian fascists or, at best, self-seeking cowards.  You would have to go to the very bottom of the Democratic Party barrel to outdo them in awfulness and even a bad Democrat can swing control of the Congress, a legislature or a municipal council.   

I would ask that Indivisible's pledge also be put to media figures who, on the left, are some of the most clueless if not collusive figures in enabling Republican-fascism and Trump.  I'd like to see Bernie Sanders who, to his credit, was the first to sign onto the Indivisible Pledge, make the demand of his supporters that they, as well, pledge to support the Democratic candidate so as to defeat Republican fascism.  I doubt you'd get the real quislings like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald,  I doubt those in The Young Turks orbit would do it which would tell you all you need to know about their real motives and orientation.  I would be especially curious to see if those running the lefty magazines, The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, etc. would take that pledge.  I think we could learn a lot that would expose the parts of the lefty media that don't really deserve the credibility extended to them.  I hope with Indivisible's efforts, a lot of that which is misplaced will be transferred to more reliable fighters for egalitarian democracy.