A Dozen Reasons Sanders Voters Are Justifiably Angry at the Media Right Now

[kristopher]

This is an outstanding breakdown of events going against the Clinton Machine narrative:

A Dozen Reasons Sanders Voters Are Justifiably Angry at the Media Right Now
By Seth Abramson

there's an incredible amount of anger being directed toward the media by the roughly half of the Democratic Party that supports Bernie Sanders.

Clinton supporters and many self-professed "neutral" journalists sagely inform the rest of us that this anger is little more than sour grapes or denial-stage grief; it's the numbers that matter -- they say -- and if only Sanders supporters cared about hard data in the same way that Clinton supporters and (say) "neutral" bloggers for The Washington Post do, or even the editors at The New York Times, everyone would just calm down and accept the incipient inevitability of the ugliest and least substantive general-election campaign in the history of the United States: Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton.

The thing is, I'm a hard-data guy myself. Always have been. And so are many of the Sanders supporters I know and interact with daily. What's actually making them angry right now is not that Hillary Clinton yesterday termed Bernie Sanders "the latest flavor of the month" on union issues -- when Sanders had already been a pro-union progressive for a decade by the time Hillary eased herself out of being a proud Goldwater Republican in the late 1960s -- nor is it that the candidate they support faces a truly monumental task in trying to become the Democratic candidate for President.

What Sanders supporters are angry about is hard data.

And not just any hard data, but hard data supplied by irrefutably objective sources and challenged as to its validity by absolutely no one.

Hard data so objective and undeniably accurate that its absence in public discussion of the presidential election is not just puzzling or downright bizarre but absolutely infuriating.

Here are a dozen pieces of hard data that Sanders supporters are particularly exercised about right now, primarily because most Sanders supporters believe Donald Trump to be a clear and present danger to the nation, and therefore can't imagine why Democrats remain unable to have an honest conversation about who could -- or will -- be in a position to stop him....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/20-reasons-sanders-voters-are-justifiably-angry_b_9544744.html

[blueintelligentsia]

1. The heart vs. the mind....

I said this yesterday to my friend (HRC supporter), it seems like they keep hammering on my head, while suppressing my heart.

[kristopher]

2. I feel similarly...

...but I'd express it as trying to stomp us into oblivion. They'd like nothing more than for the left to just disappear,

[grasswire]

3. that is such a clear and convincing article!!!

Facts and data!

Wonderful. I'm sharing it everywhere.

[kristopher]

12. Great. It needs as much exposure as possible.

Thank you.

[DanTex]

4. With this and the "Bernie is winning" article, this guy is rapidly becoming the next HA Goodman.

[Octafish]

5. If you introduce data, you can't talk about the horse race.

Thank you for the heads-up, kristopher. You are doing the news media's job and the First Amendment proud.

[marions ghost]

6. Excellent article

Excerpt:

"Sanders is one of the most experienced officials in American government, and not just because he got so much legislation passed via amendment in the House of Representatives that he was dubbed “the Amendment King of the U.S. Congress.” No — he’s experienced because he had sufficient security clearance and access to foreign intelligence and years of experience on a national and international stage to make the right call about Iraq when Clinton did not or could not. All of America saw that the case for the Second Iraq War was bogus, but somehow Clinton not seeing it — or not having the political courage to say so — is something Sanders supporters bring up, what, out of spite?

I do it because tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians died needlessly in that pointless Bush-Cheney fiasco Clinton green-lit — I don’t know about anyone else."

[JudyM]

7. Great article. If only Hillary supporters would consider these points!

[Joe the Revelator]

8. Interesting article, that is apparently fairly difficult to refute.nt

[moondust]

9. Some of the early primary states

might turn out differently if they were to vote now after seeing that Bernie is not only a viable candidate but has won a bunch including three landslides out west. I'm guessing the early corporate media narratives of HRC's "inevitability" influenced many to vote for her before they paid much attention or had any confidence that Bernie could actually win. All that has changed. She's been more or less railroaded into the early lead by corporate media and the DNC.

[kristopher]

13. Yeah, the trend lines are pretty clear.

And that's with Bernie having to swim upstream against everything the media, the political elite and the DNC could try to drown him with.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kristopher.

[amborin]

11. K&R