Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Room-I didn't know people in my "group" see being challenged as treason.
HILLARY CLINTON ROOM
I always thought questions and challenging is good for democracy.
I always thought my "group" handles challenges really well.
I don't see it as a treason.
The things people say on DU.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)We have the best candidate, it is was to answer questions.
Treason? Guess I do not understand how this is treason.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Sounds like what a RWer would profess, not a Dem.
We are tough like HRC!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)go to commie next.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Are not but they are Republicans. I have gotten over the Third Way, I agree more with the Third Way than the far left so it is a complement. Is supporting Hillary worth being accused, in a heartbeat, yes yes yes.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Then the posting of tons of article threads plus charts and telling supporters exactly what HRC is thinking.
I believe, for some reason they are reaching a fever pitch of pure dislike (I'm being nice here) for HRC and her supporters. Reminds me a Right Wing sites where they kick people off their site because they don't think like them.
Democracy is truly dying here on the DU.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)BainsBane
(53,012 posts)that a few people on this site have the nerve to support another candidate. Doesn't say much for their commitment to Democracy. So you all are going to vote for a different Democrat? So what? Yet that in itself is seen as completely unacceptable, rendering you inferior. It speaks poorly of their views on human equality and democracy. They rail against oligarchy, while working to create a party that excludes the majority and caters to the interests of a few. If you even mention that civil rights, women's rights, or LGBT rights matter, you are accused of being Third Way. Politics is about their interests and no one else's. The poor? Given them food stamps. What else could they possibly deserve? This country belongs to the white upper-middle and middle-class, not anyone else, not the 1 percent and not the lower 50 percent. They repeatedly dismiss the work by DOJ to defend voting rights or use civil rights provisions to combat rape as "nothing" because it isn't about them. Anything that speaks to the basic civil rights of the majority of Americans is "nothing," if it doesn't express their anger at no longer sitting near the top of the capitalist system. They have no problem with capitalism or inequality itself, just the fact that they no longer benefit from it.
It's not a coincidence that some of the most conservative members of the site are aligned against Clinton, the same people who flip out if anyone tries to discuss sexism and racism outside the police (who they already despise) or the GOP. That even held up a former Klansman to make their case and insisted it smacked of "desperation" to point out the fact he was in fact a leader of the Klan for quite a long time. Rather, it shows how much some of them have in common with the furthest right elements in America. How many times are we going to hear about how great America was before the 1960s? It doesn't matter how many times it's pointed out that most of us were denied basic rights, they keep talking about how much better America was back then. They care about one thing: having their anger validated by politicians on the tee vee. Some are every bit as contemptuous of the majority as are the GOP, as their constant efforts to exclude people from the Democratic party demonstrate. Their political ideology is premised on one principle: entitlement.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Many Sanders supporters think the he only needs to open his mouth and he wins. Life doesn't work that way.
People in the party have different ideas and we need to be a big tent party.
Third way is just a way of putting a scarlet letter on those who disagree with them.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Good read BB!
Cha
(296,778 posts)the other candidate with facts or you will be torn into.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Unfortunate.
Gothmog
(144,890 posts)I like Sanders as a person and agree with many of his positions but I do not think that he is viable in a general election. I am also hopeful that Hillary Clinton can move Texas towards being a purple state. She is very popular in Texas.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I appreciate you level-headed approach.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Gothmog
(144,890 posts)I am glad that this thread was locked http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026689161
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Gothmog
(144,890 posts)Good Democrats are supporting HRC and evidently 60% to 80% of the Democratic Party are third wayers.