The more piling on of Sanders I see

[MADem]

140. I wasn't being smarmy at all. I was being DIRECT. I don't look at every thread.

In fact, I trash a lot of them, especially if the language gets too hyperbolic.

If he is opposed to gun control, that deserves a full and fair airing. He's running for POTUS, not POTUS of Vermont, so that's one of those issues that does get picked apart on the national stage. He'll have to amplify his feelings on the issue.


I thought he was "anti" Wall Street (simplistic shorthand, I am sure some VT businesses are represented on the stock exchange) so I don't see how that argument goes anywhere. He's not from a state where one of the major "industries" is banking and finance. I could see him coming down in favor of protections and subsidies for producers of, say, maple syrup, butter, cheese and milk, though--all politics is local.

The Scandanavian retorts don't ACTUALLY mean White/Sexist, I think the people making those kinds of remarks were getting a dig in, because of the way that so many HRC detractors try to morph her into her HUSBAND when it is convenient for them to make an argument against her. While it is true that VT isn't a leader in terms of diversity of population, I've never heard anything to suggest the man is a racist. They take one comment like this one, twist it, and then rub it in for sport--just like people do about HRC ALL THE TIME. Even when she withholds comment (who wants to contradict their boss before one absolutely HAS to?) people make assumptions about her POV without any evidence to back it up. That's what people are doing, in retaliatory fashion, certainly--and though it's a taste of their own medicine, I don't think it's terribly helpful.

Many of the comments about Clinton are just vicious, they cite Breitbart and Newsmax and Drudge without ANY concern as to the provenance of their arguments, and they are designed to deride, ridicule and demotivate.

If that doesn't work, it's time to start making fun of her appearance, her age, her voice--and there are people here who do that unabashedly. It's the opposite of "progressive" or "liberal," that kind of conduct. It's sexist too, IMO.

It's a two way street. I don't go for that kind of crap at all.

Here, I'm not making this shit up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026500857
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026101885
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026497993 (this asshole was PPR'd after over 800 trolly posts; he's probably back under a new name)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141067027
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026348172
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025075831
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025785996


Just the tip of the ugly iceberg. Lots more where that came from.