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In reply to the discussion: Supporting the values of the Sanders movement is not "refighting the primaries". [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)Your obsession with making your faction the one true group of progressives and smearing every aspect of dissent or pushback as some pejorative is HURTING, not helping. Believe it or not, being a self-righteous, grandstanding asshole makes people LESS likely to work with you, not more. But you have your head too far up your wannabe """"""progressive"""""" ass to care because you're already convinced you are superior to anyone who doesn't just fall in line behind you and your "movement"
You do realize huge chunks of the Dem base fucking hate your "movement", right? You do realize that there are a lot of people who want Al Giordano or someone to (as unlikely as that would be) kick Bernie out of politics forever by beating him in 2018? And you know why that is? Because of shit like your OP where you act like you're the victim because people don't instantly and automatically agree with you. Like, seriously, get a damn clue. PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF YOUR SHIT. It's gotten to the point that people are slamming Keith Ellison solely because he's sorta linked with Bernie, though it doesn't help that obsessive Bernie partisans are slamming people for not supporting Ellison for the same reason.
What you should be doing is groveling for forgiveness instead of acting like you're special or your views are special. Believe it or not, Bernie is not that much more progressive than Democrats, he's just willing to use the "S" word which does count for something, but he's much closer to the platform Hillary ran on than Sweden (and that platform itself was closer to Sweden than anything Dems have run on in 40 years). But because you types act so damn stuck up, where we could be working together, nobody fucking trusts you because you think that your opinions are the only ones that matter.
So really, my advice to you is sit down, shut up and learn some respect before you start trying to lecture to us about your "movement". As if the "Sanders movement" are the only leftists or progressives that exist and everyone else is just corporate shills (which you might just actually believe).