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Human101948

(3,457 posts)
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:24 PM Jan 2016

I don't hate Hillary! And I don't love Bernie! And I think there are more on DU like me...

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I have supported Hillary throughout the years beginning with the Whitewater witch hunt. I think she is a smart, tough candidate. If she is nominated I will support her 100%.

But she doesn't set me on fire.

When I first heard that there was this guy Bernie Sanders, a Democratic Socialist, running for President, my curiosity was piqued.
I listened to him talking about reining in the banksters with no apologies, getting health care for all under a sane workable and less expensive system, and finally making the one percenters pay a reasonable share of taxes, I started to get excited.

This is the kind of talk that I have been waiting for for the past 40 years, since I starting voting, often feeling despair as we faced Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes, who courted the worst elements of human nature and attacked liberals incessantly.

I thought that President Obama was going to change everything. I hoped...but that hope was stomped on by Republicans and their phoney Tea Party acolytes. And he unfortunately listened way too much to the Wall Street banksters. It has been discouraging.

I don't hate Hillary and I don't love Bernie. I just really like the fire he puts into his ideas and the way he is unafraid to go where Hillary fears to tread.

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I don't hate Hillary! And I don't love Bernie! And I think there are more on DU like me... (Original Post) Human101948 Jan 2016 OP
Reality is usually between those 2 extremes, that's for certain. randome Jan 2016 #1
Probably the vast majority of people on DU agree with you. guillaumeb Jan 2016 #2
I think much the same way Dem2 Jan 2016 #3
I dont' hate Hillary. I just don't trust her or anyone so deeply entrenched in Wall Street and the Ferd Berfel Jan 2016 #4
At times I get very sad. We lost Wellstone, we lost JFK Jr, truedelphi Jan 2016 #5
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. Reality is usually between those 2 extremes, that's for certain.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:28 PM
Jan 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

Dem2

(8,166 posts)
3. I think much the same way
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:40 PM
Jan 2016

I assume the majority of Democrats are like us. I really enjoy what Bernie is pushing, yet there's a practical side that says he might not be able to pull it off.

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
4. I dont' hate Hillary. I just don't trust her or anyone so deeply entrenched in Wall Street and the
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:42 PM
Jan 2016

Trans national cabal

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
5. At times I get very sad. We lost Wellstone, we lost JFK Jr,
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 07:43 PM
Jan 2016

And I do get nervous about the fact that Bernie has only been a senator and that from a very small state.

I plan to do everything I can to ensure his win, but it is strange, isn't it, that any time we have a charismatic and vibrant younger leader, they are "accidented" out of existence.

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