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73. That wasn't meant as an insult, and it was definitely not meant to be personal, but calling the

rhetoric as I saw it. It was an opinion.

There is so much hyperbolic BS flowing through most of the threads supporting one candidate or another, based on a person's particular bias, at least that is how I have been seeing DU lately.

My point being is that the republicans today actually view Democrats as anti-American, and have expressed that view on many occasions, not only when bush was president, but also during Obama's term, and it has actually become worse.

So to your argument, I see no difference between the "Clinton" hatred, which most certainly exists, and the "socialist" label hatred which definitely exists in those circles. A perfect example is what will occur if the SC rules against Federal subsidies for the ACA. Millions of people will lose their insurance in the 30 some states whose republican governors refused to implement exchange programs. They have so much partisan HATE, that they are actually saying healthcare should be a state issue, and they don't care about the health and welfare of the people in their state. Yet, those same people who are utilizing that, continue to vote for the same republicans time and again, because they have been told that "Obamacare" is "socialism", "worse than slavery", "worse than communism", etc., even though these same people collect their social security and medicare they vote against it, and of course in their ignorance do not realize that the ACA is insurance reform and not socialism.

My argument is that socialism is as hateful of a word to most republicans today as the Clinton or Sanders are

and yes I do understand you point, we just don't agree on that, though I do believe the polls are not particularly accurate at the moment, and won't have any sort of validity, until the campaigns and debates start in full force