2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumwith all the name calling directed at Sanders supporters
what are we calling Hillary supporters?
I can think of a few things, but dont recall any particular nickname standing out.
is there a list of acceptable terms in current use?
reddread
(6,896 posts)apcalc
(4,465 posts)I have seen people disagree with their positions however.
Stop with the primary school stuff...
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)LonePirate
(13,419 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)You just made that up
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)It is used all of the time
LonePirate
(13,419 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Posts that have not been hidden. It does depend on the jury indeed.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)"Naderite" for one.
plenty others.
thanks for your help
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It's been atrocrious.
Apparently no one was supposed to figure out that rather than debate on actual policy points, the game from the beginning was to craft a narrative about the supporters of the opponent, a lame caraciture of some purple-shirt wearing millennial white dude who drives his parents' volvo, uses a mac, sports ironic facial hair, and is some sort of stealth klan member.
The primaries are almost over, so of course now everyone is supposed to pretend like it never happened. Whatever.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And I know you know I know you know.
I know many things, no?
LonePirate
(13,419 posts)I guess we all see what we want to see around here.
reddread
(6,896 posts)getting Hillary elected and slamming Sanders supporters for being Sanders supporters.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Which always struck me as a bit off, but whatevs.
There's been no shortage of shit-tastic behavior from both sides, I'll grant you that. But I think there was a deliberate attempt to craft a narrative about one campaign's supporters that came directly from the other campaign. Hell, they pulled the exact same crap 8 years ago, and they certainly were recycling a lot of other tactics.
http://www.salon.com/2008/04/14/obama_supporters/
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)i suppose they want her face on the Hillion dollar Bill?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... pointed out as neoliberals.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)"Corporatists" and "paid Brock operatives". Your narrative is false. Sanders supporters have been calling Hillary supporters all kinds of things for months. YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM !!!!!
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)june 16th is getting closer
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)who will concur with you that there is NO SUCH THING AS A PAID BROCK OPERATIVE!
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)thats one demographic you dont want to mess with.
larkrake
(1,674 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I prefer HillBullies
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)but instead of "billies" they had "bullies"... .
I got hidden for that, even though I had gotten it from someone else's thread. But I think it fits PERFECTLY.
seekthetruth
(504 posts)I would call them sellouts, but that does no good. They support the candidate they choose to.....and I'm fine with that.
What I do have a huge problem with is this notion that somehow if we don't support their candidate we're enabling Trump to win.
The problem with that logic, and I'll use all caps for my Hillary -supporter friends so they can easily see this: HILLARY OR TRUMP.....THE SAME THING WHEN IT COMES TO THE ISSUES THAT MATTER MOST: ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY, AND WAR.
Get it? Of course not, but you're so enamored you can't see what you're being fed.
Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)Don't get a persecution complex just because fed-up Hillary supporters have been hitting back.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)You didn't arrive until the end of March.
reddread
(6,896 posts)vitriol like "persecution complex"?
I wonder how that would fly in person?
Blanks
(4,835 posts)And started coming back daily only after it was obvious Hillary would be the nominee.
It seemed like it was all Bernie, all the time. I don't really have a problem with him. I don't think a lot of the folks supporting him have any intention of voting for him.
I've said all along that is one just says that they support Sanders is a blank check to bash not only Hillary, but all democrats. I'm sure there are sincere Sanders supporters, but I'm not sure how to tell them from the plants.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I suspect it's actually been pretty evenly divided...
still_one
(92,187 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)The definition I would give is:
"support neoconservative foreign policy, neoliberal economic policy, and a handful of hot-button social issues."
MFM008
(19,808 posts)work it all out people.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)Trump is going to say it daily, or perhaps even more frequently.
For all the Clinton supporters here who are insisting Bernie concede, you just don't know what's coming.
ALL that stuff Bernie would not touch or talk about, all the investigations and Hillary's skeletons, will be primo talking points for the Donald, and his attacks are going to make Bernie look like the Pope.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)This Trump University business could easily become a fraud charge. There are steps that you have to go through to call yourself a University and Trump (and the others) didn't take those steps.
The press has given Trump a pass for about a year now, that's about to change.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
jamese777
(546 posts)That term works for me. Democrats who support the presumptive nominee of their party.
Democratic Primaries popular vote as of June 6th
Hillary Clinton: 13,297,176 (55.4%)
Bernie Sanders: 10,247,986 (42.7%)
Clinton over Sanders: 2,999,190
Hillary Clinton: 1,811 pledged delegates
Bernie Sanders: 1,526 pledged delegates
Hillary Clinton: 548 Superdelegates
Bernie Sanders: 46 Superdelegates
Hillary Clinton: 2,359 total delegates
Bernie Sanders: 1,572 total delegates
Hillary Clinton: 29 contests won
Bernie Sanders: 21 contests won
Hillary Clinton needs 24 delegates.
Bernie Sanders needs 811 delegates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)And certainly not "underground".