The Race Card, the Red Card, the Gender Card! All being played by the Hillary Campaign.

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67. So, I'm reading Brothers Karamazov again and came across this passage last night

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the elder Zosima to Fyodor Karamazov:

"The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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A man who lies to himself, for instance, can take offense, for there are times it's rather pleasant to feel wronged---don't you agree? So, a man may know very well that no one has offended him, and may invent an offense, lie just for the beauty of it, or exaggerate what someone said to create a situation, making a mountain out of a molehill. And although he is aware of it himself, he nevertheless does feel offended because he enjoys doing so, derives great pleasure from it, and so he comes to feel real hostility toward the imaginary offender . . .

~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

This makes me think of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth when anyone tries to bring up any of Hillary's policy stances they disfavor.

So Hillary supporters are victims, persecuted, because Hillary is not the favored candidate here on DU...so they have to make things up (mountains out of molehills) about Bernie and about his supporters to feel vindicated, and to enjoy the pain of being the victims. Like claiming "shiny object" is/was meant to be sexist, just as an example. So, of course Bernie supporters (and even Bernie himself) are sexist, because he said "all the shouting" and was not even referring to Hillary when he said it, but of course, she was right in turning it into a misogynist poke at her.