2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The primary-season framing of "Hillary Supporters" vs "Bernie Supporters" is a thing of the past [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)... you seem to be unaware that people can see that site for themselves, and can readily see that your portrayal of it is completely opposite to what our own eyes tell us.
JPR is an HRC hate site, and has been from the outset. It is also an anti-Dem site, where posters are encouraging each other to leave the Democratic Party en masse.
They have accused Hillary of having "stolen" the election, and of actually having people murdered who pose a threat to her political ambitions. They have accused Democrats of removing BS supporters from voter rolls, of having rigged the primaries by discarding and/or not counting votes for Bernie, and of having engaged in all kinds of nefarious conspiracies in order to ensure that Bernie could NOT win the primary election.
The minute Bernie endorsed HRC, there was post after post on JPR about how he "had to do it" because he'd been told by HRC and/or other Democrats that he, his family, and even his grandchildren would face bodily harm if he refused to do so. They've also claimed that HRC had Bernie's secret service protection removed for the purpose of being able to "get at him" if he refused to cooperate.
"The official apologies/acknowledgements that we've just gotten only refer to the tip of the iceberg, as many of us see it."
And therein lies one of the many problems with JPR. It is a petri dish for conspiracy theories where, with little or NO facts, members are determined to find something - anything, no matter how utterly ridiculous - that they can blow up into being some vast conspiracy that the DNC and Democrats participated in, thereby casting Hillary's nomination as the illegitimate outcome of coordinated criminal behaviour.
To appeal to Skinner that JPR should be protected from "digs and slams" is ridiculous on its face. If people want to call Hillary a "lying bitch, a murderer, a warmongering cunt", they are open to the same ridicule and push-back as any other posters on anti-Democratic sites. That's how DU rolls - always has, and hopefully always will.
I predict that in the weeks to come as the "Bern" fades, many JPR posters will want to return to DU. I would caution them that few here - whether former Bernie supporters or long-term HRC supporters - will forget what they've seen posted by them on JPR.
We Hillary supporters welcome those who now stand with us behind HRC - in the same way most BS supporters would have welcomed us as fellow Bernie supporters had he won the nomination.
But those on JPR - who have accused not only Hillary, but MANY Dems and the Party as a whole - of being bought-off criminals who steal elections, threaten the lives of their political opponents, and engage in illegal activities in order to thwart the will of voters will probably not be greeted with open arms when they return.
You reap what you sow. And sowing discord and divisiveness, and spewing out-and-out lies about Democrats and our Party, will undoubtedly not end well at DU for those who did so.