His Pureness (BS) has apparently attained worshipful, God-like status now...Bwaahaaa!

[Surya Gayatri]

Bernie Worship....(not the Onion)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511591182

And, they're touting this hysteria as something desirable and commendable. SMH

[72DejaVu]

1. They hate it if you can them a cult

But then they tell you that God Himself sent a sign that Bernie is the Anointed One.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Many are the same ones who accuse Obama supporters of

having DRUNK THE KOOL-AID!!!11!!||11!! Seriesly!!11!!

[riversedge]

8. Many are past drinking the kool-aid and are into the

abyss. Have you seen the Bernie fan logo?? I have noticed on some sig lines out there.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Yeah, that bird business was truly OTT.

"And, a heavenly envoy shall descend to designate the annointed ONE..."

[pandr32]

62. If you look at the bird as a metaphor

Bernie got "the bird"...ha-ha!

[liberal N proud]

30. The Birdie Party

[LisaM]

64. We love you Birdie, oh yes we do......

We don't love anyone, as much as you
When you're not near us.....



You get the drift. This is getting ridiculous.

[liberal N proud]

65. Looking forward to the day when it becomes Bye-Bye Berdie

[pandr32]

61. Exactly!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Cult of personality

[lamp_shade]

3. Here ya go...

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Praise be! The transfiguration (and self-delusion) is complete!

He's probably been practicing levitation on a cloud for his future revival meetings.

[riversedge]

37. OMg!!!

[lunamagica]

5. That's one of the things that turned me off. The wirship s absurd. It's scary

It's hard for me to believe that adults feel this way aboyt anyone, esp a politician.

To me, the only one who's has something approaching sainthood is Jimmy Carter, and no other politician comes close to him. Not Sanders, not Hillary, or anyone else.

But even PJC is a man human with flaws like anyone else.

This Sanders cult is right down scary

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Extremely disquieting...when you consider the inevitable fall

from grace and mass disillusion.

[lunamagica]

7. That's it...inevitable fall. I'm afraid that these people worshiping him today will later turn on

him, hating him with the same intensity they show in their "love".

The only way he can avoid this is by not getting the nomination -then he can continue to grow in people's fantasies, asking themselves "what if".

Unless he -as I suspect he will- starts a new, very lucrative career touring the country giving speeches

[Surya Gayatri]

9. A lot of these "first time voters" and political neophytes

that he's roping in, have no idea about realpolitic and the realties of governing in a pluralistic democracy.

Hell, they don't even know how the 3-branch system works. They appear to believe that he's going to waltz into the White House and put it all into place on day one.

Go figure...the naïveté, it Berns.

[kjones]

43. Action Carter...

bonus:

[Turbineguy]

11. I remember in 2008

when teabaggers were describing Obama as the Messiah in the apparent hope that our higher rationality would take over and we would take that brainbox Sarah Palin to be one heartbeat away.

[Surya Gayatri]

12. Messiahs (and people with messiah complexes) don't usually make for good governance.

They CAN lead a hell of a "movement", though.

Where that "movement" goes after the hysteria dies down is another matter.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. Some of the more excessive hagiographic gems from under the pic of the ONE...

Bernie a Man like You Comes around once in a Life Time We the People cannot Thank You Enough! Salute to You the next President of These United States.SALUTE

I get goose bumps just looking at you. I try to watch every rally. I feel driven by your words. You are Astonishingly pure in your motives. Your peace is felt across the world. We will not give up. We will rise to do what's right.

Bernie, from where I was standing yesterday in Madison, you looked Olympian. You have done something incredibly profound. I'm not much of a religious man by any stretch. But, I promise you this; the almighty has smiled on you. Take it from one who knows. I am your man. I dream of the day I can finally call you Mr. President. Take it all the way my friend, we are with you. Never quit and never give up. Keep fighting the good fight. Semper Fidelis (former Marine)

Jeezus H. Christ on a trailor hitch...these people have drunk something stronger than Kool-Aid.

[alittlelark]

14. We drank in reality.

[Surya Gayatri]

15. You really want to hold these hyperbolic harangues up as an example

of rational thinking?

Woah, the contagion is worse than anybody imagined.

[riversedge]

35. uga uga uga

[DemonGoddess]

44. uhhhhhhh

what the hell??? what's with the religious fervor in a POLITICAL process?

Jeezus Christ on a POGO STICK!!

[Surya Gayatri]

51. And, Bernie is supposedly an agnostic, if not an atheist.

[Hekate]

59. A nice Jewish agnostic. If he's anything at ALL like my husband, the hagiography in your quotes...

....would make him physically ill. The man has a campaign to run and doesn't have time to sit and study the internet madness, but if he ever is forced to look at manifestations like that, I predict profound nausea.

[Trenzalore]

17. Anyone see the Hunger Games logo

About once a day a new thread with the hunger games logo gets posted with the sparrow at the center....they are nuts.

[riversedge]

36. agree. have not seen that particular one. But twitter has a

million or zillion last few days.

[livetohike]

19. I don't like the man. Never did. So much whining, complaining and

negativity about what he perceives is wrong. I just don't see what his worshippers see. His stump speech is boring.

[Coolest Ranger]

20. What are they going to do when

we show up in huge numbers for Hillary and help her secure the nomination?

[cosmicone]

21. Here is another ...

[Surya Gayatri]

22. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus BERNIE!!!! Seriesly!!11!||11

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[cosmicone]

23. LMAO

Et ipse est Deus noster. Et ipse est pater noster. Ipse comitia salvificem mundum pugnando?

[Surya Gayatri]

26. For those who, like myself, are not operational in Latin:

He is our God. He is our father. His elections save the world by fighting?

[cosmicone]

28. "He saves the world by fighting an election?" n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

32. Yes, sounds more plausible....Google threw up the first one.

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[jmowreader]

69. You left out part

Pie Jesu domine, dona eis requiem (x2)
Pie Jesu domine, dona eis requiem sempiternam.

And then they hit themselves in the face with a board.

[still_one]

53. I was thinking he would have at least encountered a berning bush by now

[cosmicone]

56. Any comment I make would get hidden hehehe n/t

[still_one]

57. ........

[Her Sister]

24. Yeah Holy Bern!

HRC GROUP IS AWESOME!

[CalvinballPro]

25. I find that Herbert Spencer quote to be spot-on.

Progressives exhibit the same disdain for actual democracy that Tea Partiers do, mostly because they know that 1) they're a minority of voters and 2) they're terrible at outreach and compromise so they never end up in the majority. Look at how progressives have tried to invalidate the votes of minorities, or basically anyone that has voted for Clinton. "Those states go red in the general election." So what? Democrats are Democrats in every state, and they ALL get a voice in choosing the nominee.

Sanders himself is arguing that pledged delegates, chosen by the will of the people in state contests, should ignore their people if those people picked Clinton, and cast their delegate ballots for Sanders instead. How is that democratic??

It's infuriating that the one candidate arguing that the people should be ignored so he can get more delegates is considered the one with more "integrity." Has that word lost all meaning?

[Surya Gayatri]

34. Yes, the Spencer quote is too true by half.

I might take issue with your use of the "progressive" label, however. Millions of Democrats consider themselves to be progressive or have progressive sympathies.

They wouldn't consider themselves to be "revolutionaries" like many in the Berner camp, however.

[workinclasszero]

45. "Progressives exhibit the same disdain for actual democracy that Tea Partiers do"

Its amazing when Bernie loses an election, that's not democracy in action, its wild conspiracy theories, dirty tricks etc.

If it even looks like its going to be close, they start up BS trying to muddy the waters ahead of time like they are doing right now in NY and California.

And they write off whole sections of the United States insultingly calling them "Confederate states" among other slurs.

[liberal N proud]

29. The thing about having a hero is that they will let you down.

People who are in a place to achieve didn't get there by being nice to everyone the met. They stepped on a few toes and smashed a few faces to get where they are.

If you are in a place where you are worshiping someone, then you should realize that you mean nothing to that person and they will do nothing for you regardless of how much you worship them.

Then when they fall, you will fall too.


No worshiping from here!

[Surya Gayatri]

31. Very well said...

[Her Sister]

33. Again~ like having a real bad crush!

Saw someone use the term "Holy Bern"/

They wonder why we are not convinced by the whole of it. As an atheist reminds me of people trying to convert me, while they are so sure of God, or Allah, or Jupiter, and so on....

Or a guy trying to convince me of dating, or sex, but I am not buying, but they keep insisting.

Just something wrong... and not convincing at all... the opposite... you just want to run far away.

Who has a right to what I consider in my brain? Who the heck they think they are?

We are all free agents. Bullying should be anathema to the human condition.



HRC GROUP IS AWESOME!!!

[shenmue]

39. Yes

[shenmue]

38. Bizarre

"If I knew anything about sculpture, I would chisel a cliff with your likeness and call it a national monument."



Crack is wack.

[Surya Gayatri]

40. Bizarre doesn't even begin to cover it...completely off the wall, more like.

OK, let's admit it--any candidate for public office can have some weird and unhinged followers.

But, the fact that they are posting and disseminating this crap, as being emblematic of his "MOVEMENT", is genuinely disturbing.

[shenmue]

41. True

[snappyturtle]

42. I don't understand the need to post this. Be happy someone loves a candidate and move on. nt

[seabeyond]

47. To the detriment of electing a Democrat through delusion. No, I do not imagine you see a reason to

Discuss the issue.

[BlueMTexpat]

48. We would find that much easier to

do if so many of his supporters did not trash our candidate for every single thing she does or says or has done and said since forever.

This characterizing of him as some kind of Superior Being - when he is every bit as human and fallible as Hillary (those stories have not yet been publicized to anywhere near the same extent) - does not sit well. At all.

[Surya Gayatri]

49. Why? Because I find such cultish behaviour to be dangerously deluded

and believe it should be called out, if we genuinely want a progressive movement to be at the forefront of this election cycle.

No better way to be taken for complete left-wing loonies, than to disseminate this kind of hysterical nonsense, openly calling it "worship" in the bargain.

[Her Sister]

52. the same way you guys are happy we like our candidate!

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure!

HRC GROUP DEAR!

[snappyturtle]

66. You assumed incorrectly. Frankly, I find both lacking my ideals. I'll hold my nose however it goes.

Do any of you dissenters here remember 2008? This type of talk was rampant....me included. So now it's delusional. I get it...

[seabeyond]

46. The bird. Message from God. Endorsement from Mother Nature. Seeking Sanders out.

Those were the comment from Sanders supporters because one of the birds that hang out in this building landed on a podium. Ya, cult.

[Surya Gayatri]

50. A divinely inspired message, indeed. LOL!

[seabeyond]

54. Lmao truly, ok giggle. I needed that. Nt

[Surya Gayatri]

55. Glad to oblige!

[Pathwalker]

58. Tot.ally creepy and scary.

He's a politician, people!

[hrmjustin]

60. Sanders ain't no saint nor is he worth worshipping.

[DemonGoddess]

63. ^^^This!!!

He is a HUMAN BEING, not some God or Godling, or whatever it is that people are wanting to call him these days. Most importantly, he's a CAREER POLITICIAN. That, by nature of the job, makes it so he is certainly NOT "pure as the driven snow".

[nolabear]

67. And this kind of worship is doomed to collapse. That's the beauty of martyrdom.

Don't read anything into that. It's just far, far harder to be a real, flawed human being like Sanders (and we all) has to be, because sooner or later you're going to disappoint those who need to project godhood onto you. That's why martyrs are so eternal and influential. They get to go out before that happens.

I'd love to know what Bernie's actual feelings about the fanatical among his followers are. I wouldn't want that kind of problem for the world.

[jmowreader]

68. It's a Cult of Personality revolving around BS

[ucrdem]

70. Yeah GDP is going full-on Om Shin Rikyo.

The bird thing was kinda sweet I suppose, but holy cow.

[UtahLib]

71. Oh dear, I'm left speechless. eom

[Cha]

72. So sick.