I wish I'd see as much professed distress and outrage over seniors being unable to buy medicine

[Skwmom]

and people having to file bankruptcy because of crippling medical bills (even if they have insurance)

as I do over the use of a term.

[Triana]

1. You & me both

People are SO easily distracted and seemingly unaware how much it's used against them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511730585

[tk2kewl]

11. me 3

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027757508

I had to post in GD earlier because I caught a hide in GDP http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511730958

[840high]

28. me4

I'm on SS and quite often split my pills to last till next check.

[Punkingal]

2. That would be a real issue...good luck with that wish.

[yourpaljoey]

3. That would require talking issues... Hill will not talk issues until she is President

And even then maybe not

[zazen]

4. or artists refusing to play in my state of NC because of benefit cuts that kill people

I'm glad there's outrage over HB2, but our GOP has passed legislation that directly leads to the death of the uninsured and the hunger of children, and no one thought that worthy of massive national outrage.

[JackRiddler]

5. Just leave this forum for a while and talk to real people.

History will record the Clinton's campaign success at clogging up a forum on DU with bullshit while Sanders snuck up and won New York, where 99% of everyone has no problem with calling politicians who take campaign money payoffs to serve corporate interests at the public expense "corporate whores."

[Skwmom]

21. You have to admire people that don't beat around the bush.

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[JackRiddler]

26. Also, believe me the bigger problem even in New York is NOT...

omg someone said corporate whore! That's total bullshit.

Every day, they will have their message attacking anything Sanders did, for any available reason. If the only word they heard was "flowers" they'd say the same things: violence, brutishness, sexism, racism, etc. You saw the guy who now calls Sanders supporters Nazis? It's just a list of charged negative codewords they recite every day without fail. Pure Rovian Ratfucking 101.

But the real problem, still, unfortunately, is this very common response: "Who is Bernie Sanders?"

Nice fundraising and mobilization by the campaign and its supporters, but it's hard to compete against all the noise of 24/7 media distractions of all kinds, and 25 years of name recognition.

This board is a yak-yak bubble of a vanishingly small group.

[Texasgal]

6. Exactly.

Thank you!

[Fumesucker]

7. Just show how it impedes the Hillary campaign in any way, you'll have a ton of outrage instantly

[pdsimdars]

8. Yes, some CONTENT instead of total vacuous attitude

and now the addition of astroturf

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Because the former is an actual issue

the latter is a way to distract from issues.

[senz]

15. This contains a terrible truth about the Clinton campaign.

If they resist discussion of the actual issues, then they are essentially fraudulent.

[Dragonfli]

18. Exactly spot on as usual. /nt

[killbotfactory]

10. It's petty and gross. nt

[Demsrule86]

12. Well that is the risk if

Bernie smears the democratic candidate sufficiently to elect a Republican.

[senz]

16. Bernie is not "smearing" anyone. He deals in facts.

The only way we'll get a Republican if is Hillary gets the nomination. Polls have been showing this for months. Don't pretend it's not true.

[WDIM]

13. We should be outraged

that we are forced to make billionaire exploitive health insurance companies richer.

ACA was a republican plan written by the insurance industry to force people to buy their product.

People are still going broke just to live while the billionaires hoard the wealth the people have created.

[Dem2]

14. I think we can discuss this issue without the logical fallacy

Don't you?

[Dragonfli]

17. One would think there is far more TRUE outrage to be had over such real issues that cause serious

harm and even death due to not receiving life saving medicines.

[chknltl]

19. Didn't Bernie organize bus trips to Canada for seniors seeking...

....cheaper prescription meds?

[hootinholler]

20. Fucking A right! Me too! n/t

[senz]

22. K&R for a very important issue

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. There are MANY things to be --

outraged about.

And "Corporate Whore" is not one of them. Well, actually the use of the term, no, but the existence of corporate whores?? Yes, THAT is the true outrage.

[VulgarPoet]

24. It's not important to them is why you'll never see it.

[demmiblue]

25. There are many people who only care about getting Clinton into office.

Issues be damned.

[ieoeja]

29. Bill's 1992 campaign theme was that he could keep those bad Democrats in line better than a GOP.

There are many Democrats who have never met a national Democrat they liked except for the Clintons. I suspect this would be Reagan Democrats who came back to vote for Clinton because Bill campaigned against those Liberals in Congress. The Clintons are as worshipful to Conservative Dixiecrats as Reagan is to Conservative Republicans.

I tried talking to bartcop about that once. I pointed out to him in the middle of the general election in 2004 that for the previous two weeks, he had posted more Kerry criticism than Bush criticism each and every day. He just denied it even though the posts were there for anyone to count. And never changed his way.

[Zen Democrat]

27. Exactly!

[Armstead]

30. They don't fucking care....some of them anyway