Rant: Something I realized about Bernie and Hillary Supporters

[Leith]

15. I Understand

Of course there are differences. They are two different candidates with different views of what is more important at any given time.

I like how Clinton has worked her entire adult life for the betterment of women and children. She has already excelled at international relations and diplomacy. She fought a hard, but unfortunately unsuccessful, battle for health care for all.

Sanders' focus is on the middle class and poor. He has worked his entire adult life to make the lives of the 99% better. He fights the good fight for those that the rest of us have forgotten.

But that does not mean that Hillary will forget the poor. Bernie will not let women's and children's issues fall by the wayside. Both of them will do their damnedest to work for the ideals that all of us here have.

The differences are minor. They have the same goals. It's just that the order on their lists may vary. Both are very good at what they do and I believe that both will fight the good fight or die trying.

I get disheartened when I see Democrat against Democrat, liberal against liberal. I've said it many times: this is exactly the playbook that Atwell and Rove set into motion and chuckle when they see us fight among ourselves. Please don't let annoyances with politics sway you to attack your allies and friends. I see it happening way too often on DU. It happened on that other site (Discussionist). I am a regular there because over the years I got used to wrestling in the mud with the pigs and it's fun to expose them for the fools they are. But there is one liberal there who keeps opening one thread after another about how horrible Sanders is. It got so bad that I messaged her to tone it down. We used to have a good rapport, but her reply completely shattered it. Now all I can do is to try not open her threads and hold down the embarrassment I feel when the rethugs post gleefully in her threads.

Stop dwelling on minor points about who is better at one plank in the platform. They are all important and all will be taken care of.


On a humorous note, the list of posts where someone replied to me, this one read:
You may not see a difference between Hillary and Bernie, and you are liberal_at_heart
Which is true, but it was a cute mash-up of the thread title and your user name.