“But..the Holocaust!”
“YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE, would have the most to lose”
“He’s only doing this for vanity! Sander would become a dictator!”
“Sander supporters are all White Bros(tm pending) who have NO IDEA how people live”
“Sander supporters are nothing more than freeloaders, and want free stuff”
“Well, you are not a real Democrat if you don’t vote for HRC!”
“You don’t even know the issues!” and/or “But-but the issues are PRACTICALLY the same”
“Black/LatinX/Asian/Vulcans/Klingons simply did not know who Bernie Sanders is, and just did not vote him, especially Black/LatinX/Asian/Vulcans/Klingon women. They don’t like him”
I could go on, but I think we have collectively heard enough of this towards Bernie Sanders supporters for the past few months. I have actually made a bingo sheet with all the anti Bernie phrases on it.
Interestingly, I have not heard this in the place that I live, Portland Oregon. In the (tiny) LatinX and African American community here, people here respect HRC but did not vote for her. My fellow Asian American coworkers did not vote for her, and my White friends did not vote her- so it’s case of living a resolutely Bernie Sanders bubble.
So when I have visited this site- and other sites that cover politics online, the anger and vitriol towards Sanders supporters- and yes, it is DIRECTLY towards Sanders’ supporters- is shocking. No one asks why- and when a Sanders supporters gives (several) reasons why, they are dismissed out of hand.
Selective resume withholding? Not important!
Willingness to lie and dissemble and triangulate? So what?
Willingness to pander to right wing ‘centrists’ and racists (as was seen with a commercial MEANT ENTIRELY for a Republican audience, and not Democrat or left leaning audience? Entirely justified!
That the whole campaign being run by Wasserman seems crooked as hell- Whatever, homes!
(LatinX/Carribean edition) Man, the idea of a spouse of a former President running for President has all sort of moral and ethical questions? What, you fresh off the boat?
I am amazed at the corrupting of the soul of the party. To think my Dad and Ma forced me to help stuff envelopes for my local congressperson in Brooklyn, that the first thing I did in 1996 when I turned 18 was register to vote and register as a Democrat (holy crap- 20 YEARS? How the in &%$* did that happen?) and voted for Bill Clinton, and have literally voted blue NO MATTER WHAT all this time- and now, I am being told that not only not only am I not a real Democrat, not a real woman, not a real concern amazes me.
What amazes me the most is the twisting and turning and name calling on the site.
I have decided to keep it very simple- no matter the events in July, to vote for Bernie Sanders. I can always vote for my Democrat Senators(Merkely, Wyden) and congressperson (Bonamici, who I am mad is not running for President), who seem to actually give a damn about the working people in this state. And I will just vote for Sanders, no matter what.
My parents did not endure racism, the hardness of working and living in NYC, and giving up their native tongue so that their adopted country could descend into a nasty oligarchy that was JUST like what they left behind.
