Reply #40: I believe that propaganda of this type can be effective. Say a woman followed the rules. [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

If she refused to listen to any news except the PUMA approved news and only subscribed to their version of events---Obama is part of a conspiracy to purge the Democratic Party of the Clintons as laid down in this Manefesto---and John McCain is actually a maverick and a good guy, then that woman could easily be brainwashed. Because some people really do cling to their bitterness. Amger is one of the stages of loss, and this site seems determined to keep Clinton supporters from moving through the healthy stages of loss. It offers them denial----note how it started with the premise that if enough women refused to vote for Obama, the convention would nominate Clinton. Now the message seems to be that if they vote for McCain, he will only serve one term and then Clinton will win in 2012 (and Obama and his superdelegates will be shamed forever). This is bargaining and lots of anger and denial. They are not allowing the Clinton supporters to ever venture into the realm of grief which is where they have to go to move on.

PUMA is one great big mind fuck. And I can easily imagine it working quite well on a number of Clinton supporters.

Hillary Clinton needs to address this issue. She needs to talk to her supporters about the stages of grief and help them to move on.