General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Not Good Enough, Bernie [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)and the vitriol directed against the poster shows a number of things: Worship for Sanders takes precedence above all else; anyone who has any concern has no right to express since since people here insist that Sanders be criticized under no circumstances; they see people of color express concern, and they not only dismiss their concerns but do so with an intense hostility. We are to trust they care about the concerns of people of color, even when they prove time and time again they not only do not care but in fact resent the fact they voice any concerns at all. How dare they question their hero? Who are they to believe their lives matter compared to a great man? I have noticed in general a good deal of worship for great men, and those men always take precedence over the human race. Be it Sanders, Assange, Woody Allen or some other public figure they favor, that man (and they are always men) is held above all others. For them, Sanders is clearly superior to African Americans, who have no right to question that he is their superior. They have no right to ask what he will do about their rights because their lives cannot possibly compare to the great man. This point of view is profoundly conservative, not leftist, liberal, or even Third Way. It is rather the idea that the select few are more important than the many. They pretend to oppose oligarchy while promoting government of the few and for the few.
Then there is the fact that we have seen many thousands of threads making false, far right wing allegations against Clinton, fabrications that are accepted as fact. Yet the same people who claim the right wing rumor will constitutes facts and issues will permit no questions about Sanders. They have no problem engaging in baseless attack after another of one Democrat, but insist to dare to question Sanders is unacceptable, foul. No sense of fairness or intellectual honesty. The only principle is ego. They like Sanders. therefore any speech that is critical of him is unacceptable, ratfucking, even malice.
This kind of absurd, uncritical reverence for a politician is not principled. Treating a politician as a hero, insisting he is more important the people he seeks to represent, is far from leftist. It goes against any conception of critical thinking or democracy. It is not Democratic or democratic. It has more in common with reverence for a monarch or a celebrity than citizen engagement.