Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: All of the Bernie Bashing is a form of cyberbullying which has no place on this website. [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)This campaign I went into it vowing to not post any negatives about any candidate and just like my candidate and yes defend her (My first choice was Elizabeth) against attacks. However, the main attacks are all against Bernie who I also like and liked as my second choice. I think I have pretty much held to my vow as all you can do is go back 4 years to find any post of mine attacking another candidate.
Notice you had to go back to the last campaign (nothing about this one) to find any post that even discussed another candidate or tried to "vet" them. Even 4 years ago, I tried to post on policies and votes that I disagreed with although I am not claiming that in 2016 you wont find snark in some posts 4 years ago. In 2016, my biggest concerns were the votes allowing cluster bombs in civilian areas by Hillary, the fact that the emails did violate democratic party priniciples which gave rise to Sunshine laws including the Freedom of Information Act. My main concern for the general election was we were running a candidate that polls showed had net unfavorable at the beginning of the campaign
Even then when pointing to Hillary's net unfavorables which were the second highest in history of any candidate other than Trump, I always attached the words "deserved and undeserved" and attacked Republican scams like the Benghazi hearings as totally unfair. My main thought in 2016 was that the biggest predictor of an election is these net unfavorables on the election date. Early polls do not mean much but it would take a lot of work to move those net unfavorables in a public person who everyone knows. None of our candidates this year had the same unfavorables which is why I did not this year have similar concerns. There are still policy concerns and vote concerns I have but I have a lot more confidence that Joe Biden will win the election.
Was I perfect in 2016 in keeping emotion and not engaging in fisticuffs. No I don't think I was but I also didn't swarm DU constantly posting negatives about everything. Anyway you got me to engage on the fact that yes I was not perfect in 2016 and sometimes entered the swarm. Congratulations.
However, we lost 2016 so I tried to learn from the disunity and changed. This thread by others does not show the same recognition that the path to removing Trump does not come from bashing other Democrats.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided