Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Well I guess that I upset the good doctor.. [View all]malthaussen
(17,242 posts)Neither is right to do so. But one must expect partisans to be partisan.
As for the issues of "anointment" and "inevitability," these can only be laid at the door of the Clinton camp, who we may be tolerably sure are not pleased to have to go through this primary process and justify their existence.
Some of the vitriol poured out on AA voters by (ostensible) Bernie supporters has been quite nasty, and it makes one sad, because one would like to think better of them. If such are "Bernites in name only" (Binos?), then so much the better if they are "outed" and assume their true colors. With friends like those...
But of course, the Clinton camp has it in for millennials, and women who won't toe the line, and are not kind about it, at all. And the last time I looked (quite awhile ago, as it happens), the Hillary group had half the supporters of the Bernie group, and yet more people blocked than they had members, whereas the Bernie group had blocked only about half as many. Which can be interpreted different ways, but clearly goes to show that a lot of people on both sides are pretty pissed off. Which one might discount as mere partisan passion, if one were not worried that such alienation might cause problems in the GE.
I haven't been at DU so long as you, but I have been going forth upon this sorry Earth and walking up and down on it for six decades, now, and this election is the craziest in memory, and the Party infighting more vicious than I have ever seen it. Which on the one hand is a positive sign: it means people are engaged (but then, why is turnout faltering?). On the other hand, of course, it is something to cause concern, because one can not be sure that all differences will be patched up in time to focus on the GE. Certainly at least some of this concern must influence the Clinton supporters, who want everyone to fall in line now, and give up this Sanders pipe dream. Not all of them can be rascals, one might think. They are misguided, certainly. And doubtless frustrated. But not necessarily malicious. It is a shame that so many of the malicious ones make so much noise.
-- Mal