# Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned

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**Created:** [March 28, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443 "2016-03-28T07:09:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/477 "2016-04-03T23:20:23Z")

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What you miss by saying that, other than the fact that I decided not to do it, is that I was very open about the fact that I was trying to hurt that party and all of its candidates. Not just some of them, all of them. If you are voting in a the Democratic primary with the intent of damaging the party, you are obviously my adversary but I give credit to your vote as being legitimate tactic because you won’t expect anyone in the party to have your back.

> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> We have different definitions of what party politics are. Some people believe that when you are a member of a family, you’ve agreed to certain family obligations. Some people believe when you marry, there are certain obligations that you take when you marry. I think when you engage in party politics, you take on certain obligations.
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> If I’m in a marriage and its an open marriage, I will run into people who say its not a “real” marriage - or that I’m not behaving in a manner consistent with marriage. I’ll offend people who think my behavior isn’t right or ethical. And to them, they are right, my marriage wouldn’t be a real marriage by their terms and they have every right to be offended. What they don’t have a right to do is to change the terms of my marriage.
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> I’m not trying to change anyone’s relationship to their party. I just find such behavior offensive.

I think it’s even worse than that, because both spouses in such a marriage have agreed to for it to be open. Bernheads who won’t support Hillary in the fall are like the husband who expects his wife to be faithful to him, but has no sense of reciprocity about his own behavior.

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