Hillary Throws Shade at Bernie: 'Fundamentally Wrong' About Democratic Party

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564. You think Hillary's book should be banned from DU?

It is interesting that you note Bernie is "bashed" once a week. Hillary, the party, and most importantly Democratic voters are bashed several times a day. Is your contention that all criticism of Bernie be prohibited but the rest continue as usual so the site can focus on what really matters, Bernie?

After months of continual recriminations against Hillary, "identity politics" voters, and the overwhelming majority of Democrats, one page of mild criticism of Sanders and suddenly there is concern about "refighting the primaries." No concern about the posts insisting the DNC "stole" the primary from Bernie. No concern about the continual repetition of Kremlin propaganda. No concern about the constant insults of corporatist, establishment, and third way, including toward the poorest and most marginalized voters. No objection to proclamations that the Democratic Party's brand is worse that Trump, a Nazi-sympathizing narcissist. No objections to proclamations that Democrats were more corrupt than the GOP. In fact, anyone who objected to those criticisms was told they were not just thin-skinned but "divisive".

If we did not acknowledge our inherent inferiority, we were the problem. Only by undermining civil rights, rolling back reproductive rights, and replacing every woman and person of color from party leadership, to be replaced by " fresh faced" men, one of whom just sided with the GOP on lower corporate taxes. Only by acknowledging that the failure to court the white male Trump voter, whose average incomes begin at $100k year, the upper .03% of global income, could we become a party worth holding office. We lost the "working class," defend as white men earning 6 figures, while the tens of millions low to median wage workers, nearly all women and people of color, just didn't count. Voter disenfranchisement didn't matter. It was an "excuse." What mattered was a few thousand white men earning 2-4x the median income, and failure to cater to them made the party unfit. We had to accept all of that, without objection. We were told to "bend the knee" to wealthy Stein/Trump voters like the Chapo Trap House crew, give them power they can't achieve though consent of the governed. And now, one page in which Hillary offers some criticisms and even compliments toward Sanders and suddenly criticizing "Democrats" and suddenly refighting the primary is a problem.

That double standard, that determination that those who have spent the last several months continually attacking Clinton, the party, and its voters should not face even a word of criticism says EVERYTHING about the values at work.