2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIrony impaired? Take what someone is writing against Hillary or Bernie and swap their names
post the replies in the appropriate forum and see the outrage by the respective supporters.
It would be an interesting experiment in irony impairment
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Doesn't work - it sounds silly, because it is.
patsimp
(915 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Criticisms of Sanders are, without exception, projections of the Clinton campaigns own problems, or a continuation of the predetermined themes that David Brock picked at the outset "Misogyny!" "Racism!" "BernieBros!"
This is not the case with criticisms of Clinton. Weapons manufacturers and rogue nations didn't use Sanders nonprofit to grease the skids for weapons deals. Sanders hasn't recruited personal friends as spies and hidden his conversations with them. Sanders hasn't laundered money through his super pac via the DNC and back to his own campaign.
The truth isn't somewhere in between, nor do "both sides do it".
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)If only he hadn't taken all of that money from the banksters and corporatists for those speeches he's not willing to share.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)No, it sure does not work at all.
Also, the Hillary supporters tend to not talk about issues and policies. For some reason, those have been deemed irrelevant or something.
patsimp
(915 posts)Bernie was pro-coal.
Irony and blinders.
djean111
(14,255 posts)to name a few things, when I think of Hillary. Nothing about Bernie can get me on board with that.