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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Camp Says Ending Superdelegate 'Debacle' Key to Defeating Trump in 2020 [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)As for angry, we're all angry, but Democrats have far, far more reason, along with the rest of the planet. We know political followings follow their leader. There never had to be all this anger, it was a creation of bad leadership. But I don't think your own in any way explains why you don't condemn Turner's lies.
Let's be honest as we move forward. Let's be angry at lies regardless of which candidates they smear and support truths regardless of which candidates they benefit. And one standard for all. If we attack every little thing as a lie for an opponent, we must attack every little thing as a lie for our own candidate. (But let's say no to both.) And no one gets a pass on shabby behaviors or set a special standard no one could ever meet.
Turner's particular lies here are about the superdelegates, though; they are not the lies she also tells about supposed massive corruption in the state parties that supposedly also went one way. You are aware enough to realize that the superdelegate votes in 2016 performed exactly as they would have had they been regular delegates. So as you know, there is no superdelegate "debacle." It's a weaponized lie. Reject it as we move on?
Resist the Republicans.