2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Third Way Progressives, Screwing the Plebs [View all]jfern
(5,204 posts)If you can't see how ridiculous they are being to Bernie supporters then I don't know what to say. Bashing Bernie supporters is a terrible strategy. A lot of us are already not feeling particularly inclined to vote for Hillary in the general election, and having months of non stop attacks on us claiming that we don't care about blacks or what not is not going to help.
A lot of attacks from Hillary supporters are similar to that they had against Obama. He's not electable. He's the Messiah. He doesn't have the right experience. Blah blah blah. Well, 8 years ago, I ignored all these lame attacks, voted Obama, and he won.
Most Bernie supporters DO care about black lives, and Bernie has a better racial justice platform. He's also much better on other issues than her. Like not starting endless dumb wars in the middle east. The death penalty. Not just pretending to be a liberal on certain issues for a primary. And various economic issues, and some other issues. False attacks against us is not going to make us want to pull the lever for Hillary.