I have come to realize that PUMAs are our party's tea-partiers

[MidwestTech]

8 years ago I thought they were just REALLY zealous to get the first woman elected president.
Sexist, but still a reasonably admirable goal.
Now I have come to realize that they are our party's tea-haddists.

They are controlled by fear and raw undiluted emotion.

8+ years ago my person was Dennis Kucinich, but I voted from California so my vote never saw the light of day to help him.
Then Edwards, but he blew up faster than the Hindenburg - pity because moral failings aside, he was a great man.

Then it came down between Clinton 2 and Obama... and Honestly my vote was with Hillary. I felt she was a known quantity... but her fans scared me. PUMAs are ... well yeah.
But I voted for Hillary. I felt she was better capable than Obama, even though I was afraid if she got in it'd be gridlock like we've never seen... and it was.

I realized that if Hillary gets in THIS time, it will make Obama's term look like a orgistical love fest.

But I'm being rational. I'm weighing my options, and honestly I prefer a dreamer like Bernie who has over TWENTY FIVE YEARS in congress and probably knows where most of the bodies are buried, not to mention his political awareness going back to his march with MLK in DC!

I hate the term X-bots. It suggests that the person following X is mindless. However after seeing so much out right HATRED at their fellow democrats (assuming they actually ARE democrats and not Dinos) I'm afraid I need to use that term.

Hil-bots are likely right wing shills or people who would be ok burning the world if we don't elect a woman this time.

PUMAs are people who are so afraid to vote for anyone else they know only vitriol and spit venom.

I sincerely hope this ends with this election cycle.
I hope we never have to deal with such closed minded supporters and bots ever again.

We are democrats, liberals and progressives! We believe in intellectual discourse not vitriolic screaming!

WE ARE ABOVE THIS CRAP!

and we need to start the healing process.

posted here because I'd likely get TS if I posted in GD, sadly.

update:correct years in office

[MisterP]

1. the emptying-out of politics always generate personality-cult politics

when a party tries to mimic another in policy and structure, it has to distinguish itself by other ways, typically vitriolic rhetoric--all the more vicious for its emptiness

when a party loses 11 Governors, 13 Senators, 69 Reps, 913 state seats in 7 years by having nothing to offer, it has to blame the voters

when people say the openly accept any reversal, any lie, any policy from candidate N "because s/he's N" the evacuation of the party is complete, there's nothing left but machine politics (without the clientelism for voters, just donors)

all this generates a party run by bullies, swaggering off their borrowed power

[AtticusInd]

2. And to think

They still have the gall to talk about 'single-issue' individuals

[BernieforPres2016]

3. Small correction

Bernie was first elected to Congress in 1990, has not been there for over 40 years.

[MidwestTech]

4. corrected

still he's been a politician with a very solid record for decades!