The more piling on of Sanders I see

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159. This site is about to fall in on itself. There aren't enough popcorn smilies in the world for

this latest iteration of DU. The same folks that have crucified Obama and Hillary supporters as being members of the "cult of personality" are PISSED with a capital P that people are actually discussing Bernie Sanders' voting record. That makes no sense at all.

The same folks that have crucified Obama endlessly on this site as a Republican lite, a "con man" an "empty suit" and declared endlessly "he said HISSELF he's a moderate Republican!!1" are now 'splaining Bernie's vote on gun control as him representing the will of his constituents. So it's okay for Bernie to compromise to bend to the will of the people he represents but its anathema for every other fucking politician to do the same?

Obama represents 300 million Americans of every race, political stripe, religion and level of education. And large quantities of the people that he represents DESPISE him. But when he compromises ie works with the other side, oh how the howls fill this place! Bernie, representing the tiniest, whitest, coldest state in the Union does the exact same -- because THIS IS WHAT POLITICIANS DO -- and "oh, but it's okay! It's BERNIE!"

There was another post that got locked that said that DU and Democrats have mostly been pretty strongly in favor of gun control, but all that's about to change because now Bernie has been a pretty strong opponent of gun control. It is a very fair assessment of what's going on as DU appears to have developed a split personality in the last week or so.