Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumIs the Bernie hate intensifying?
Is it just me, or .....
It seems the closer we get to the end of the primaries and the "new rules" here on DU that the posts attacking Bernie are increasing and getting more intense.
Clintonistas seem to want to dump a big pile of hate on Bernie (and us) in these final days.
IMHO
Jennylynn
(696 posts)It's always worse on the weekends.
emulatorloo
(45,470 posts)beltanefauve
(1,784 posts)a lot of people drink and post on the weekends. The anonymity of the Internet plus liquid courage equals bad behavior made worse. .
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Secretary Clinton supporters say that "the math" shows she will get the nom. WHY are they so insecure about the outcome, and WHY are they insistent in pushing away potential votes in the GE by alienating Sanders' supporters with their nonsense?
I find them politically, and potentially FATALLY short-sighted.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)they want hillary to win the nomination so she can loose the ge to trump.
everyone knows bernie can win the ge.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)However, I dig their angle. Secretary Clinton was once a First Lady who was dragged into a disturbing, personal narrative involving her husband. She (and her husband) persevered and she sought a valued Senate seat to be vacated by a beloved Senator (Pat Moynihan, who I met and knew personally). I campaigned and voted for her in 2000 and 2006.
I respect her. I may not be happy with some of the... untruths that fall from her lips from time to time, but, goddamn it, I will NOT let that fuckwad, piece of human excrement (sorry shit, I owe ya one) Drumpf get ANYWHERE near the White House.
If Secretary Clinton is the "trench" I have to climb into, then I'm into that trench. Just hope it doesn't play out like this...
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)not only is our government at stake - but all of our natural resources and those of the world - not to mention our sons and daughter's who will be sacrificed at the altar of the greedy war machine.
nope. to "compromise" all of the above and choose one horrifying choice over another is not an option.
but, i'm sure you will be able to sleep at night.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)i will cross any other bridges (or not) when i come to them.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,498 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)arrogant and snarky people.
I lived among conservative liberal upper middle class people for many years. All Democrats, and they loved the Clintons. But they hated people who didn't keep their lawns mowed; they disparaged those who protested wars; and cruel judgmental gossip was a daily part of afternoon cocktails. It's not fair to generalize but not easy to shake impressions of a voting bloc either.
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winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Bill Clinton. A lot of people, including Dems, just wanted the Clinton Administration to be over, which put Gore at a disadvantage from the get-go. I've seen Gore blamed for trying to distance himself from Bill Clinton, but that's as close as people ever get to it. That Gore had a reason for wanting to distance himself is not mentioned.
Instead, they're still using Nader as a boogeyman, as if that loudmouth had Svengali-like control of voter's minds. You know what? If it's not fucking obvious that Dems are better than Republicans, that's on us, not some sideshow act trying to get another 15 minutes in the limelight.
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winter is coming
(11,785 posts)It's a shame we never found out.
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winter is coming
(11,785 posts)do the less glamorous parts of the job.
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grasswire
(50,130 posts)Response to grasswire (Reply #28)
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hopemountain
(3,919 posts)and fracking for oil and gas would be banned.
and, social security and medicare for retirees would not be the f'd up corporate grab it is today.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,591 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)appalachiablue
(42,393 posts)look that Clinton sure didn't do much for his VP's race. Not blame but clear distain.
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)Well said.
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left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Maybe you should post your pro-Clinton comments in the Clinton forum?
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LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)for your"support."
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)onecaliberal
(35,101 posts)Investigation, who 67% of the country thinks is a liar is a better candidate than the guy who has spent 40 years working for the people with a proven track record who doesn't lie or spin. I'm so glad I can think critically about the issues and not have to actually tell someone that drivel you just posted. You'll have to do better than that steaming pile. She is NOT the better candidate to those with functioning grey matter inside their skulls
onecaliberal
(35,101 posts)Investigation, who 67% of the country thinks is a liar is a better candidate than the guy who has spent 40 years working for the people with a proven track record who doesn't lie or spin. I'm so glad I can think critically about the issues and not have to actually tell someone that drivel you just posted. You'll have to do better than that steaming pile. She is NOT the better candidate to those with functioning grey matter inside their skulls
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Will help encourage Sanders supporters to come to their senses and vote for Hillary.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)1. The presumptors (Is that a word? If not it should be.) are persuaded that their leader will prevail. (i.e. At the convention.)
2. The only way to make a serious challenge to Trump is to mollify, prior to incorporating, the Sanders wing of the party.
3. This will involve humiliating groveling and reluctant concessions: by the Clintonites, to the despised and resented Berners.
4. This prospect creates a harmful psychological conflict, which they ineptly attempt to resolved by upping the level of invective prior to the inevitable groveling phase.
It's an ego defense.
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)I don't see a future of grovelling. I see five months of "Trump fear mongering" and movement to the "sensible center."
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)...bad news for candidate Clinton and .... to put it mildly.... a very long, very bizarre, fall campaign with an astonished world watching nervously.
Trump is scary; but so is Clinton.
Jester Messiah
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MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)But just watch them come begging for our votes in a few months IF, gawd forbid, HRH finagles the nomination.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,498 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)I just don't get it. Can you imagine the outrage if the Republicans ran a candidate with the same baggage as HRC, plus one who faces possible indictment? They would be screaming their heads off, and rightly so.
The double standard is sickening.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)One of the reasons I'm glad Bernie is staying in the race is to unmask the contempt third way Democrats hold for the left and their determination to cut us out of the process entirely.
It's been a real eye opener and they can no longer claim to be practical people who disagree with our objectives but just want a more incremental approach.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)and although they won't admit it they are worried about her future scrutinization by the FBI and others
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merrily
(45,251 posts)they act as though Bernie is a serious threat to Hillary. In the dictionary, next to the definition of "cognitive dissonance" are links to GD: P and the Hillary Group.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,498 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
nwnatural
(16 posts)Just occasionally check in. So vitriolic it brings me down.
raging moderate
(4,469 posts)Remember when they insisted they had proof that all of us Bernie Sanders supporters are definitely rich white supremacist elitists? Yeah, that one really cheers me up when I am working through a flashback to the time the rat was peering out of a hole in my tenement when I woke up. Or the times we had only one slice of dry toast for supper.
Autumn
(45,802 posts)fuck em.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)A few more drips and the bucket will overflow
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Are you FeelinTheBern like the rest of us?
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)and they attack us.
pa28
(6,145 posts)Boss Tweed would stand in awe at the level of formalized bribery we see now.