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In reply to the discussion: TYT’s Cenk Uygur booted from American Airlines flight because pilot wasn’t ‘comfortable' [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Many of us who didn't like Hillary, didn't like her from her days in the white house, and she never did anything to change our minds, only reinforce them.
Many of the Hillary supporters here now couldn't stand her when she was running against Obama, so they should be able to understand why many of us still can't stand her, even though they have now changed their minds.
How they could change their minds when she really hasn't changed at all is beyond me. Sure, she claims to have changed on certain issues, but it's obvious it's all political pandering.
It's as if they've just blocked those old emotions and beliefs out of their minds.
But now that there is a man who never "bothered" anyone, challenging her (and worrying her and her base that she might not win) all of a sudden, they are trying to find anything they can to hate him for. Nit picky, silly stuff.
It's like they are actively "seeking" reasons to hate him, when in fact there really isn't much you can disagree with him on. And he's a basically nice, honest guy.
It's just so baffling to me that their devotion to her, can make them hate Bernie so much, that they have to find things to justify it.
There has got to be some kind of name for this bizarre behavior.
And that we don't love Hillary...that we are not blind to the truths of who she really is, is just galling to them. Again, they have to justify to themselves that we are wrong and confused (or just hateful) to not feel the way they do about her.
Does politics have terminology to cover this?