New video from the Hillary Clinton campaign: "Fighter"

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73. Clinton supporters and even other Sanders supporters

are insulted as Third Way, aligned with Goldman Sachs and the 1 percent--often by people far more affluent than those they insult. One person who I know is affluent insults LGBT people and poor people that way all the time. Another announced that corporations had sent women and people of color into the Democratic party to subvert it from its true mission. A number of others spent days insisting that their right to hurl misogynist insults trumps a woman's right to be treated with respect. When polls come out showing that people of color do not favor their candidate, they call them "uninformed" and "low information voters" and even target with alerts a black member who said she did not like Sanders. They have also responded to simple questions about Sanders record and accomplishments with hostility and profanity. They make clear they hold him, a politician, above the citizens he seeks to represent. The entire ethos they present is anti-egalitarian. They target not the 1 percent and corporations but ordinary Democratic voters who fail to fall inline with their orthodoxy, all while willfully and repeatedly falsifying Secretary Clinton's record.

You could say you see Clinton supporters as doing the same but that is the kind of false equivalency cable news specializes in. The numbers of Clinton supporters are few, and they do not have the numbers to even engage in that kind of behavior. The resentment of Clinton voters is that they even exist. People here are using the jury system to rid the site of the Clinton supporters that remain. They may indeed be successful with that, but it has no bearing on the election. It only makes the site even more homogeneous, which is in fact the goal of some.

I have learned a lot about who people are. They have made clear they see me and others who don't adhere to the proscribed orthodoxy as the enemy, as inferior. You cannot claim to be part of a people's movement when you target as the enemy the people.

Sanders seems to be a good man with strong values. He has asked for a positive campaign. His supporters here reject his leadership and even denounce the very argument in favor of a positive campaign as Third Way. That is why I think this has far less to do with Sanders and the election than in the efforts by some here to proclaim their own, entirely undeserved, sense of superiority over the many. All of this behavior is entirely antithetical to Sanders values, yet none of that seems to matter even a little bit to members here. That they are systematically turning people off to their candidate is entirely inconsequential to them. They promote their own goals, even as they are ad odds with Sanders.