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cali

(114,904 posts)
Tue May 10, 2016, 07:56 PM May 2016

This is what I've learned today. Hillary supporters are practical.

They understand that not only is free tuition at public colleges utterly impossible pie in the sky, but "free stuff" is bad, bad, bad. It's soul destroying. Take it from Ayn Rand.

Hillary supporters are practical. They know that diplomacy requires associating with Henry Kissinger, who is not a war criminal and anyway Bernie Sanders is responsible for just as much evil.

Hillary supporters are practical. They know that big money corrupts. But they assure us that Hillary is incorruptible.

Hillary supporters are practical. They know that single payer is impossible. And anyway, we have Obama care.

To paraphrase Eliot, They no longer strive to strive toward such things.

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This is what I've learned today. Hillary supporters are practical. (Original Post) cali May 2016 OP
Well said! Merryland May 2016 #1
Guess that's why we didn't have much progress Downwinder May 2016 #2
"Never try, never fail." (D) hellofromreddit May 2016 #3
Perfect. cali May 2016 #4
I laugh every time a Bernie supporter writes an OP ... JoePhilly May 2016 #5
The OP tries to make sense of Hill fan inconsistencies, that's all. senz May 2016 #7
Too self-righteous and sanctimonious. JoePhilly May 2016 #8
You forgot ignorant of HRC's positions Sparkly May 2016 #16
Um, neither candidate has a monopoly on self righteous and sanctimonious Armstead May 2016 #19
Me, too!! PeaceNikki May 2016 #12
Truly. Sparkly May 2016 #15
No her plans are just her version of Sanders "ponies" Armstead May 2016 #21
Anyone, who agrees that tweaking SBS supporters sadoldgirl May 2016 #17
The poster you replied to didn't post the OP. Why not hold them accountable for the msanthrope May 2016 #20
NO WE CAN'T grasswire May 2016 #6
Because they're the grown ups. EndElectoral May 2016 #9
News: The so-called "Grown ups" are exiting the world. grasswire May 2016 #13
Poppy Bush: "We have more will than wallet." Octafish May 2016 #10
Clinton has plans to help improve education. Nt NCTraveler May 2016 #11
This too pdsimdars May 2016 #14
I'm stealing that graphic. pacalo May 2016 #18
She, and they, have a cash-register concept of principles and America. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2016 #22
Oh look... Nonhlanhla May 2016 #23

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
2. Guess that's why we didn't have much progress
Tue May 10, 2016, 08:17 PM
May 2016

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when public colleges were tuition free.

Thought that was why they called them public.

I have been told that we educate for the job market. No jobs, no education

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
5. I laugh every time a Bernie supporter writes an OP ...
Tue May 10, 2016, 08:26 PM
May 2016

... describing what Hillary supporters "think", or "feel", or "are like."

OPs packed with petty insults, weak straw men, mock indignation and self-righteous pontification.

As if such things somehow help their cause in any way.

The reality is that it's this kind of nonsense that caused Hillary supporters to stop taking anything many Bernie supporters seriously.

It's not worth the effort.

Any real argument you might have had is obscured and lost inside the rest of that nonsense.

So stick with that tactic, it's working very well for Bernie.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
8. Too self-righteous and sanctimonious.
Tue May 10, 2016, 08:36 PM
May 2016

Neither of those are "complex".

In fact, they are easily observable.

Sparkly

(24,149 posts)
16. You forgot ignorant of HRC's positions
Tue May 10, 2016, 08:49 PM
May 2016

and proposals and accomplishments etc. etc.

Also easily observable.

Sparkly

(24,149 posts)
15. Truly.
Tue May 10, 2016, 08:47 PM
May 2016

They never bother to look at anything she actually said or did (unless they can make it look really really really bad), and any answers we offer are taken as an invitation to make more attacks, change the subject, or say "Yeah but who believes her?!"

It's the self-righteous pontification that gets me.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
21. No her plans are just her version of Sanders "ponies"
Tue May 10, 2016, 09:15 PM
May 2016

Unlikely to ever see the light of day ion the form they are proposed. And she knows it....She just uses a lot of words concocted by her staff to cover emptiness.

Sanders proposed goals and broad plans, and tells us We are going to have to hek,p him fight for those goals if he is elected.

Who is more realistic?

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)
17. Anyone, who agrees that tweaking SBS supporters
Tue May 10, 2016, 08:53 PM
May 2016

is great fun and all, loses automatically all credibility.

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
20. The poster you replied to didn't post the OP. Why not hold them accountable for the
Tue May 10, 2016, 09:12 PM
May 2016

thread they posted?

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
13. News: The so-called "Grown ups" are exiting the world.
Tue May 10, 2016, 08:43 PM
May 2016

They are the past.

The future lies with Americans who will not be duped by idiot memes that try to convince them that America can't have the societal elements that European countries do just so the Military Industrial Complex and the 1 percent can profiteer.

Nonhlanhla

(2,074 posts)
23. Oh look...
Tue May 10, 2016, 09:35 PM
May 2016

Another bullshit psychoanalysis of Hillary supporters by a Bernie supporter. I've learned so much about myself from these posts.

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