Thank you Thom Hartman for your perspective on the Marissa Johnson diatribe

[daredtowork]

62. Called out DU by name? Ouch.

This last week I keep thinking back to the start of the primary season where the Bernie campaign was so innocent. We were all so nice, and Hillary supporters were always bullying us. And they always looked like total clods since Hillary was Big and Inevitable.

The problem with the last week is Bernie supporters can't claim innocent nice folk anymore.

Perhaps we haven't been able to in a while. This is the first time I've taken a look into GD to see what the heck was going on in there. I usually stick to GD because that's time-consuming enough. I just always assumed Bernie supporters remained cute and nice, and everyone else bullied us.

The problem with the reaction to Seattle is Bernie supporters did not know when to stop. Perhaps the disruption was wrong, perhaps they had reason to feel offended, perhaps they had evaluated the perpetrators in a certain way - but the level of offense seemed to go way over the top. Some of it seemed to be kneejerk reactions with an unwillingness to listen to context that modulate those feelings, and worse, some posts seemed to be deliberately creating an outrage machine. At a certain point, Bernie supporters should have been mature enough to ask themselves who is all this outrage really benefiting? Even suspicions of Bernie being targeted could have been handled in a more low key way.

Now that people have been exploding everywhere and "on the offensive", I can't play like I'm on Team nice and cute anymore. Sigh.