2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Don't look now Hillbots, but Bernie's poll numbers are at record highs, and continue to climb! [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Demeaning terms for supporters of specific candidates are unhelpful from any part of DU.
All the crowing about HRC's gains are misdirected because they aren't actually gains. They are a bounce from the Benghazi fiasco.
Beyond what I suspect are empty sockpuppets to influence the jury system and a half dozen Cave dwellers stirring up steaming piles of their own sociopathic feces to smear on their cheeks as some sort of misdirected badge of honor, many supporters of HRC are recognizing that Bernie brings enormous benefit to the table and are unhappy with the frantic evolution of their candidate's stances, undemocratic tactics of the DNC/DLC, reports she will scurry to the right as soon as the primaries are over, and the fact she will just let the TPP pass without a fight.
When Sanders wins the primary, most of our HRC camp will place their energy and enthusiasm with the candidate moving for real change. Unfortunately, if the inverse occurs, and Wasserman-Schultz steals the primary for Clinton, the enthusiasm for an HRC general election run will be tepid at best as so many Sanders folks have joined the Democratic Party specifically to support Sanders.
If the DLC/DNC are successful in their perversion of the primary process, it will just be more of this crappy situation we currently have, or far worse.