Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters are the worst human beings in the USA, if not the world. STOP IT. [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)During the 2008 primary, I was not even reading DU yet. However, I was posting on two other boards, one very small and one larger, which allowed posters of all political persuasions. Even the far right on those boards did not attack Obama supporters like Sanders' supporters get attacked here, not in degree and not incessantly. The owner of the larger board, who was a Hillary supporter, went full PUMA and she did get nasty sometimes. However, the other supporters of Hillary on her board did not.
People writing newspaper articles and blogs and speaking on TV, like Krugman, attacking supporters, who are not public figures, as much or more as they attack the candidate? I saw nothing like that toward Obama's supporters in 2008. In 2008, even as a strong Obama supporter, I thought media was favoring him.
I'm sorry. I am not seeing a parallel.