Contrasting Reactions on July 29, 2016

[MineralMan]

I'll be joining in on the left...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'm puzzled.

You used to be a fair, rational, polite poster - maybe a bit pompous on occasion but never nasty. I sometimes disagreed with you but was never offended. What happened to you?

[tonedevil]

2. When someone shows you...

who they are you should believe them. I've seen that quote. or something close, attributed to Maya Angelou and Secretary Clinton supporters remind me of it every day.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I guess so. Kinda sad, though.

[kstewart33]

5. Here's what happened.

Sooner or later, after months of being attacked, insulted, demeaned, and essentially being treated as some ignorant know-nothing who is too blind to see the Greatness of Bernie, you get so very tired of it all that your mood turns.

Maybe not a lot and not permanently, but to some degree. It has happened to me on occasion. It's normal. I'm human.

So is MMan. And when he does of course, you or someone else are ready to call him on it.

I wish Bernie supporters were so vigilant with their own, as to the rules of respectful posting.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I can speak only for myself.

But I have also tried very hard to avoid losing it after months of being called a dumb, foolish, naive, sexist, racist, BernieBro-ish (I'm an old woman, as it happens), communist, unicorn-demanding, free-stuff-wanting hippie nincompoop who is too blind to see the Greatness of Hillary. It goes both ways, you see. But I've made an honest effort to avoid posting gratuitous insults, which the OP apparently has not.

[kstewart33]

7. Then Velveteen, you're better than I've occasionally been.

However, if your point is that you and other Bernie supporters have been treated as badly as Hillary supporters, on that I disagree.

One way to resolve this question is to scan the titles of posts going back the last 2 weeks or so or better yet, the last two months or so. And the comments in posts with the most recommends. It's been a bit of a bloodbath for Hillary and her supporters.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. That's my birthday. Please send contributions to Tammy Duckworth's Senate campaign in lieu of gifts.