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In reply to the discussion: Sanders brushes off Clinton criticism: 'Look forward and not backward' [View all]all american girl
(1,788 posts)(because he couldn't be bothered to read the story), that Hillary voters were vagina voters, she was a whore, money being thrown at her, her supporters being call every sexist name in the book, all her strengths were held as weaknesses, beanies votes were blamed on her, wikileaks, media, memes, bernie not enthusiastically campaigning for her (yes we were watching...looking like he was getting his teeth pulled), the convention, every one of her primary wins was said to be stolen from him, and at no time did he stand up like a grown up and deal with it. Hillary brought her people together after 2008, and was told she had to do it in 2016...all bernie needed to do was show up and act like he wasn't going to throw up. Well, in my book, that was on him to help unity, since he didn't have a problem trashing her personally. Was he the one and only problem, no, but he hand his big hand in it. Hell, all you have to do is go online and the same stupid fucking shit is being said about her, from the same damn people.
Here's the deal, we will have another woman run, and she may be black...we need to look hard at our sexism and racism that was allowed to happen. We need to be honest with ourselves that some though it was OK to treat our base like crap to make others feel good about themselves. This falls on bernie and his supports to police themselves and speak out the will not happen ever again....because believe, POC and women will no longer be told to shut up and we will call it out...like we are doing now.