2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLet's review our excuses for tonight (all GUARANTEED to have been used here before):
The Democrats have RIGGED THE VOTING MACHINES!
The STATE PARTY is sowing chaos at the polling sites!
The DNC/DLC/Third Way is rigging the election!
The PRIMARY SCHEDULE has been stacked!
The MAINSTREAM MEDIA is in the tank!
The voters are UNINFORMED!
The voters are TOO CONSERVATIVE!
The voters have a MASTER/SLAVE attitude!
The STATES DON'T MATTER in the General Election!
...and of course, there's my personal favorite (only lightly used):
I guess the voters just had a different preference than I did.
Nanjeanne
(5,005 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 1, 2016, 04:23 PM - Edit history (1)
Condescension and nastiness. So typical.
Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)I will vote for the candidate with a D after his/her name in the general. End of story.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)Not trying to poke holes, just... Kinda confused by intention there.
brooklynite
(95,007 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)But no, I'm serious-- I see uniformed, I think military, and I can only think you meant "uninformed"-- but I've been wrong before.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)LexVegas
(6,121 posts)stonecutter357
(12,699 posts)The DNC/DLC/Third Way is rigging the election!
JudyM
(29,294 posts)snpsmom
(692 posts)I rarely post, but this stuff just gets me. I think there are plenty of Bernie supporters, like me, who would love to see him get the nomination, but who won't make excuses for him if he doesn't. Sure we'll be disappointed, but we're not spoiled children. The sort of nastiness the OP embodies doesn't do the poster any credit and doesn't help the candidate they support.
brooklynite
(95,007 posts)I'll observe that Sanders has never attempted to excuse away a bad outcome; if only his fans could pick up on that.
snpsmom
(692 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)You yap about stuff said by random people on the internet. I point out things said by your own candidate in public year after year.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Your behavior serves as a role model to us all for the utmost in grace in both victory and defeat.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)though I personally won't blame voting machines
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And, will vote accordingly.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)On Tue Mar 1, 2016, 02:48 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
Naw. I just don't want Hillary as president.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1382166
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Advocating voting against Hillary if she is the D nominee. Says "I just don't want Hillary as president." I guess she wants Trump.
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Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)the same for the states Bernie wins.
brooklynite
(95,007 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I expect that the bigotry chocked straight culture is today what it has always been, eager to regress and oppress, incapable of even conceptualizing equality of decent interpersonal behaviors. I expect this OP and that sort of thing from the folks who won't pass an ENDA and cling to candidates who preach theology with hypocritical zeal.
The 'different preferences' of conservatives are always 'we prefer the candidate who most strongly opposed the rights of minorities we don't like'. And that's what this is too. Same as it ever was. Not a bit of difference.
I'll be voting for the only candidate this Party has ever run who has no history of gay bashing. You will of course vote for the other one.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)I guess.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)It must be great to be a rich bully.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)We do not hold the resources in money or media.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)NowSam
(1,252 posts)... that pride comes before a fall. Should the tide turn please remember your own arrogance prior to spouting off excuses for your own candidate. Things like - "The FBI was out to get her, " or "Get over it, ever politician lies," or whatever.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)...