2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI urge all Bernie people to be respectful
But I sure do understand how hard it is getting to do so.
No! You can't have single payer health care, we are told.
No! You can't have education provided you after high school.
No! Bernie can't beat the republicans.
No! You can't have hope that government can be changed.
Meanwhile Bernie's opposition is out collecting campaign contributions from millionaires and corporations who are trying to buy the government so they can keep getting corporate welfare and lower taxes.
Yeah, it's getting harder to show any respect for those who support the establishment politicians who have a boot on our necks.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)...but you must know that.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Oh well.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)...no doubt.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)There have been 3 from my list replied....2 weeks ago I purged it because I thought maybe it had improved some, now it is back where it was....to bad really..
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)They are not interested in much more than their own narrow view and mostly that view is anti-democratic, in my book.
DU is a much nicer place without seeing their pollution.
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)I get it though. No! You can't support Bernie sanders without making false statements about Hillary.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Making arguments for Sanders is also easy, as is showing data and respected opinion highlighting reasons why Clinton is damaged goods. I've found there is little need to respond to the provocation from her "supporters". The five or so that are the worst offenders exhibit behavior that shows that emotional disabilities or unethical employment (paid shills) probably motivates them. They are not supporters or advocates in any effective sense. One or two are entertaining or at least interesting, but not for the reasons they probably think.
Of the dwindling number of sincere Hillary holdouts, a few are entrenched in the current unfair system, but they mostly keep to themselves.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)you wanna run that "respectful" thing by me again?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1081285
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Are you speaking of this type of respect? http://www.democraticunderground.com/110730422#post39 look at paragraphs 7 - 8
Article after article posted here, and ignored. But as it turns out, it's all starting to backfire, so there is that side benefit.