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In reply to the discussion: OMG after watching HRC on CNN... We HAVE to get her elected [View all]betsuni
(25,449 posts)Social media flooded with propaganda, elected official (not Republican) and media aimed at left-leaning audiences endlessly trashed Hillary as a corrupt warmonger racist worse-than-Trump cartoon villain character created to convince people not to vote or vote third party because Democrats are "ideologically and morally bankrupt." They knew what they were doing. Something about "revolution."
Hillary's career as a passionate advocate for human rights, especially for women and children, was erased and replaced with lies and conspiracy theories. Dollar bills thrown at her when arriving at a fundraiser with George Clooney. The real Democratic base isn't stupid enough to believe that campaign donations to get Democrats elected somehow makes anyone "beholden" and hopelessly corrupt and worse than Republicans ("at least Republicans have the courage of their convictions" they said); aren't stupid enough to be trained by populists to knee-jerk boo at the words "Democratic Establishment" with much more vicious hate than at the words "Republican Establishment" and boo Democratic icons who've, like Hillary, spent their entire careers fighting for equal rights; aren't stupid enough to believe that primaries are somehow rigged by the DNC (as if it's a shadowy powerful diabolical organization stopping at nothing to prevent progress because of course more evil than Republicans) and voters (the actual Democratic base) don't count because they're tricked by the bad evil Democrats. It worked well enough.
The real Democratic base fully imagined the stakes.
LOL at all the idiots who said Obama and then Hillary were warmongers. Plenty of that here and everywhere.