Well despite the theories posited yesterday, I'm not a Russian or a RWNJ out to sow discord [View all]

[The Polack MSgt]

I am a Democrat, lifelong pro labor pro choice pro equality capital D Democrat. When I question who Senators Warren's and Sanders' target audience has been these last 2 weeks, this history is where my ire comes from.

I believe I can speak for many of us here at DU when I say this - All through Reagan, Bush one and two, the contract on America era and the Party of Hell No era we have been Democrats. We were fighting and - as it is now popular to say - Resisting the GOP throughout those years and we still are.

We are told repeatedly that there are "disaffected voters" who kinda hate our party, just, you know, less than the Trump Party. So we need to have our high profile Democrats acknowledge their issues and welcome them to our table. And we also need to change to accommodate a Senator who's dislike for our party never waned enough for him to consider joining it.

Until he needed to.

President Obama and Secretary Clinton are fucking important to us but they appear to be objects of disdain to the very people who we are told we now have to welcome. So when the leading Progressive voices give remarks about how President Obama taking a paying gig is disappointing, and that many Democrats have been siding with big business and against the little guy, it flat pisses us off.

I also remember that these disaffected voters hate Secretary Clinton because they swallowed the R.W. lies and smears of the last 3 decades. So, yeah. Forgive me if I don't radiate perfect confidence in their opinions.

I know which other audience hold Pres. Obama and Sec. Clinton as objects of disdain, so that is why these echos of R.W. criticisms - coming from a Democratic Senator no less - will always get a reaction.

And that - as I've stated several times on several threads is why I wonder who the hell are they talking to?