Is it so hard to believe that decent people can support a different candidate than you?
I'm sick of the attacks on the character of supporters of the candidates, assuming that they must support the candidate that they do because of some deep personal, even moral, failings. This is ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING and anyone who engages in this sort of immature nonsense should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Decent people can look at the same facts and the same context and come to different conclusions. Deal with it. Be adults.
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Sure. And given that they're all raving misogynist racist purple shirt wearing mac fanboy brogressives afflicted with white male pathology who barely have time to put gas in their broke-ass Rand Paul Sticker covered volvo klanmobiles before driving their elitist entitled selves to the library to check out atlas shrugged and getting on the public computers there to hate-swarm everything that is pure and decent on social media (and look at porn, probably) after which they commit a series of microaggressions and then head down to the local venezuelan embassy to declare their undying love for Stalin and Hugo Chavez, before finally dining on a feast of cornflake-covered brofurkey....
can you imagine how those *********s would react if they WERE called names?
by the way, your comment? 
Can't be too careful, I've found! 
Ya knocked that one of the park! 
Absolutely BRILLIANT!
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
I don't need to "quantify" the fact that there has been an endless stream of threads like "racist sanders supporters zomg" for the past 6 months, that people have pulled out of their desperation internet narrative rear ends. You can use the search function just as well as anyone.
This is far and away different than a discussion about single payer. Look, is it "immoral" not to support it? I suppose that depends. I think a solid moral case can be made for SUPPORTING it, to be sure. But regardless, it's pretty fucking surprising to see so-called "progressives" so vehemently railing against the idea. Challenging the Clintons themselves on ethics- whatever I might feel about any underlying allegation- is NOT the same thing as running a full-tilt ad hominem smear campaign against Sanders supporters.
"which would indicate" is quantifiably different from "actually saying out loud", dig?
Also, since we apparently need to have this discussion, "ethics" in my mind includes honesty. And I actually DEFENDED the crap out of Bill Clinton, during the 90s. I still, to this day, believe the impeachment was a farce and Ken Starr had no business poking around that man's underwear drawer. But he did not need to get up in front of the country and wag his finger at the tv screen about "I did not...." See, silly me, I believed him at the time, because he said it. And boy did I feel like a fucking fool when it turned out he actually did what he claimed he "Did Not".
Ethics, in that situation, would have been to say "yeah, I did it, none of your business, between me, my family, and the other consenting adult involved, now fuck off". So please, let's not get too hamstrung with outrage that anyone might ever raise any sort of question around ethics and "The Clintons", although obviously he is not his wife and they are not a unit. But-- you brought it up.
I've seen Sanders supporters openly mock the idea of political realism as being stupid.
And again, this is equivalent to calling people here closeted white supremacists exactly how?
I've seen Sanders supporters make the uninformed claim that Clinton is a Republican or the mainstream of the Democratic party is Republican in spite of overwhelming evidence that the parties are moving further apart.
I'm sure you've seen people say silly things, I'VE seen people say silly things. I'm a lifelong Democrat because I do NOT believe that the parties are the same. But here's a quick question; the chair of the DNC allied herself with Sheldon Adelson (a Republican) to make sure the government could put sick people in prison for using medical marijuana. Do you think that's defensible? Do you think that's what the Democratic Party- OUR Democratic Party- is or should be about? Is it a legitimate grounds to criticize her and elements of our self-appointed "mainstream"?
I can't seem to get anyone to answer that, probably because teaming up with republicans to put sick people in prison for using medical marijuana is pretty fucking indefensible. But to me it indicates something of a problem, or a disconnect, with some of our leadership.
I don't "believe the vitriol is all on one side", but, then, I never said that in that post. Actually, ironically, that post was refuting someone else who said "the vitriol is all on one side"- namely, the Sanders side. So maybe you should talk to them, and not me. 
The reason people liked it is because it is pretty friggin' spot on given the bullshit that has come out of the HRC camp for the past 6 months- and really, it is indicative of the fact that they haven't wanted to argue on the basis of actual issues, instead throwing out lame gibberish about "berniebros".
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This is the straight up truth, but I certainly don't expect the people who need to hear it will hear it at all -
But it needs to be said - Thanks!
