Hillary Camp Using INSULTS & Name-Calling To Win Over Bernie Supporters.

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Instead of extending a unifying olive branch, Hillary Clinton supporters on social media are showing disdain and animosity to Bernie supporters.

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1. Sounds familiar to me.....

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

11. Yup... good luck with that Hillary supporters.

[Duval]

19. Yep.

[onecaliberal]

2. Perfect, she'll know just who to thank when she loses.

[villager]

3. That's all they've been capable of here at this "discussion" site, as well. nt

[libdem4life]

4. She's polling in the 30s...she needs something...anything...

It's like on here. The hysterical hubris, demeaning one-liners, just plain political insanity...meanwhile this candidate has aides being deposed who are in serious legal danger. They Have to tell the truth. She doesn't, apparently. But she does want to be President really badly and has coveted the role for a long time. Thus....

Aren't we lucky.

[riderinthestorm]

5. Quelle surprise nt

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. Oui!

[Live and Learn]

6. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what they say any longer.

There is nothing they could say that would allow me to vote for her. She lost my vote long ago.

[Scootaloo]

7. I've been BEGGING them to advocate for their candidate

I'm certain there's got to be something there worth support. She's a human, not Dick Cheney, there's gotta be something admirable. And I'm counting on her fan club to really polish it up and chuck it out there.

But they're not doing that. At best, it seems like they don't need to because she's Hillary so she'll just win. At worst, I get the feeling that Hillary supporters are just some variation on the familiar old hate Movement theme, like all those years of repressed rage at "librulz takin' over mah party" is finally boiling out.

Look, we all know that Hillary is a better candidate than Trump. I imagine most of us are going to induce ourselves into varying levels of inebriation and hit the polls to vote for her just to keep him out. But... that's us. That's a small subset of a small subset of the voting populace. Every last one of DU's Bernie supporters could roll out like htey keep demanding, and wit hthe campaign she's running, the total non-support she gets from her "supporters," and the overwhelming reliance on not being someone else, she could still fucking lose to that aryan untermensch.

[retrowire]

18. THIS SO MUCH

I have tried and BARELY got intelligent discourse out of some people. Mostly it's taunts though.

[jamese777]

9. Isn't It Ironic?

In 2008 there were angry Hillary supporters who refused to vote for Barack Obama. They formed the P.U.M.A. organization (Party Unity My Ass). Some voted for McCain, others went third party.
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

[senz]

10. In 2008 the candidates stood for basically the same things.

Not so in 2016.

[Sherman A1]

13. Precisely

and perhaps we will see a very similar trend this time. I see no need for her to get my vote.

[Bernin4U]

24. The irony is that this time, the PUMAs

...have managed to make themselves the "majority".

Edit to add:
IOW, Berners and PUMAs are polar opposites. The difference is that this time the PUMAs "won".

[Jim Lane]

14. On the bright side, the one who called us "terrible human beings" was PPR'd.

True, that post was in April and the pizza wasn't delivered for more than a month later, so it's not clear what role that particular bit of disdain played in the decision -- but at least the poster is gone.

[sangfroid]

16. Too many of the Hillside

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are relying on the old "so who else you gonna vote for?" They assume throwing Nader in our faces will force us to vote for the least of two evils. What they don't get is this is a movement, not an attempt to help a sweet old man from Vermont get a new job.

[blackspade]

17. Clintonville has been lecturing us for a year...

That Sanders supporters are his biggest problem..
Classic projection.

The PUMAs are still out there and they are still on the Clinton side. They are the ones hell bent on destroying the Democratic coalition in their quest for Clintonian purity.

[VulgarPoet]

20. I don't want them to kiss my ass for my vote at this point.

I just want them to kiss my ass.

[mrr303am]

21. +1. I couldn't agree more,

If they feel Hillary can win without us Bernie supporters then have at it and good luck. Since write-in candidates are not an option in my state, I'll be voting for Jill Stein.

[hopemountain]

22. bullies cheat. and when they cheat

they bully more. they have no concept of being graceful in winning.


how much will things change after the convention?

[GreatGazoo]

23. yes too much stick and not enough carrot

but the real strategy here may be to hang on to Hillary supporters and appeal to the Right by Hippie Punching with no real interest or expectation of winning Sanders supporters over.

The demonization of Sanders supporters may be more about demanding head-in-the-sand loyalty from those already in the Hillary tent than winning over the unwinnable.