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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A meme that used to be very popular on DU, now I never see it here [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)28. I agree. That "Savior" meme really rankles me.
I support Sanders even though I regard him as a fallible human being and I sometimes disagree with him.
Sanders went from single digits in the polls to getting more than 40% of the vote against a candidate who had the overwhelming support of the party establishment. He did so while being unafraid to use that dreaded "S" word (no, not "savior" that so terrifies most of our elected officials. No fair-minded person can deny that he is, in many ways, an exceptional politician. Nevertheless, to say that his supporters can't think for themselves is just stupid.
I wonder whether that kind of insult will be allowed here after June 20.
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A meme that used to be very popular on DU, now I never see it here [View all]
Fumesucker
Jun 2016
OP
It wasn't that you didn't support her, you analyzed her flawed character brilliantly in my opinion
Fumesucker
Jun 2016
#11
The same crap was flung by the Clinton campaign against Obama and his supporters...
Armstead
Jun 2016
#25
because a bunch of delicate flowers will cry "authoritarian" and compare her to Stalin
geek tragedy
Jun 2016
#34
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. Lord Acton
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2016
#32