Welcome to /r/SandersUnmoderated!

Our one and only goal is to make Bernie Sanders the Democratic nominee in 2016, long shot though it may be.

We are not Democratic loyalists and have no desire to protect Hillary Clinton for the sake of "Democratic unity" and "comity" if it means unilaterally disarming ourselves and disadvantaging Bernie in what's increasingly becoming a cutthroat, Machiavellian battle via the likes of David Brock and Hillary's other slimeball surrogates. Comity is not the prerogative of an underdog who's facing tremendous institutional disadvantages. Ideas and lives are at stake.

So along with the usual Bernie posts, posts discussing Hillary's vulnerabilities are welcome because they help us hone our own electability argument via contrast. Unlike on other Bernie subs, you don't have to worry about your posts passing a certain threshold of direct relevance to Bernie or whatever, for we consider the indirect relevance of Hillary's vulnerabilities in this zero-sum game to be patently obvious. Hillary's supporters and surrogates have no qualms about employing attacks they believe Republicans will use (hence the hammer-and-sickle attacks), rationalizing their behavior as battle-testing Bernie and vetting his electability. That's fair enough -- candidates ought to be vetted -- but it cuts both ways, and so far Hillary has been gifted with a protected space and only nominal opposition on her general-election vulnerabilities.

Anything goes here that's even tangentially related to Bernie and the 2016 election (SCOTUS, Bernie memes, pot-headed streams of consciousness, Bernie toilet paper, whatever). Obviously we're bound by exceptions for the usual Reddit no-nos: no spam, no flooding, no personal harassment, etc.

The drawback of this lax approach is that we may get quite repetitive (superdelegate threads, for instance). But we feel that making such posters feel unwelcome via moderation is more damaging to Bernie's grassroots support base than giving them a repetitive voice. Besides, if we were to remove their threads, we'd be removing the replies as well, meaning it's not only the original poster left feeling annoyed (do you want your 300-word reply canned?). Moreover, deleting threads creates an oppressive, walking-on-eggshells environment in which people don't bother posting insightful in-thread comments if they feel a thread is destined to be deleted.

If we can get a few hundred active posters over the coming months, this subreddit will be considered a success.

Welcome!