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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison getting thrown under the bus in T-minus 7...6...5... [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,383 posts)That has primaries to decide candidates. In those primaries candidates criticize each other. Luckily Democratic candidates stick to the issues like Bernie and those that supported him. Enough with the damn emails! Amen! Along with Benghazi and any other dumb fake news about her. The reason why Bernie and his supporters were so adamant NOT to foment these kinds stories are because we wanted a fair critical battle..both ways, because we believed that we had the best ideas. The last thing we or Bernie wanted as to muddy the waters. Hillary was free to call Bernie inexperienced, or that Americans weren't ready for things like Single Payer or even a $15 per hour minimum wage or whatever she wanted. And Bernie could argue for those things, even that she was too closely tied to corporate donations, because he wasn't. That is her baggage, and that is his baggage. Everyone has some kind of baggage. Honest criticism of actual baggage is what goes on in primaries.
You seem to be saying that fake baggage is the same as actual baggage. And if anyone dares to criticize actual baggage, they are lumped in with the deplorables that promote anything from Bernie is a dangerous socialist and lives in a fairyland and hates black people, to Hillary ran a child pornography ring.
There seems to be a disconnect with your interpretation of intent of the the vast majority of Bernie supporters, outside and inside DU, where you conflate them with Russian trolls, Trump trolls and other extremists. Those who promote fake scandals and are not at all interested in fighting inequality and unfairness as promoted in Bernie's platform. Much of which was adopted by Hillary into her platform. It is and was not in our best interest to talk about her damn emails!
You want someone to blame, I get that. And its so much easier to smack a family member when you are mad. But please just stop your own fake news. Outside trolls infiltrated a lot of facebook pages and websites to foment this exact kind of false charges. You are feeding right into Putins and heir Donald's plan.