2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Folks the US can't shut down all political disagreement for 8 years simply because.... [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)No one's talked about taking Sanders into a back room and shooting him, for example.
It's never been thought of, let alone proferred by so-called progressives, to tell a man to step aside in favor of the women he's defeating. Complain about his policies yes, demand he sit down and shut up and defer to a woman? Nope.
But, plenty--and I mean plenty--of Sanders supporters saw nothing wrong with demanding that Hillary drop out and step aside in favor of Bernie.
Here's an example:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511901753
Not to mention the talk that this is really Bernie's party now, as if Clinton and her voters don't exist.
Gee I wonder why?
that goes along with the attempts to delegitimize her win on the part of Sanders's most ardent supporters that sounds in the same venomous vitriol as the Trump/Tea crowd has applied to President Obama. the basic refusal to see his status and victories as legitimate
people tried to argue that it was just politics, and had nothing to do with race.
they've looked foolish in retrospect