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In reply to the discussion: Feinstein: "Trump is right" [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)Anytime Sanders says anything favorable toward Trump or condemnatory toward Democrats, he is defended vociferously. Comments that are similar or less objectionable from others result in those politicians being pilloried. There have been many other examples, this being one of them. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029050160
My comment is on the glaring double standards. People here are now demanding Feinstein be primaried. They are also insisting she is too old to hold office, all while insisting the party must back as President a man who would be 87 at the end of a second term.
I don't know how you decided Sanders tweet was sarcastic. I didn't see any emoticon or anything else to indicate sarcasm. His comments admonishing Democrats not to politicize the Russia inquiry certainly weren't sarcastic.
Frankly, I don't care one way or another about Feinstein or most any politician. I do care about the party being held hostage, to the point of refusing to vote for its candidate in a GE, by people who demonstrate gaping double standards and insist we should support men like Tim Ryan for leadership positions. Seems to me when people have been proven wrong about the dangers of a Trump administration in terms of its relationship to White Supremacy or nuclear war, and have been proven wrong in their choices of "fresh faces" like Ryan, they would do well to take a break from lecturing people about moral standards they make no effort to uphold themselves. That certainty that they and those they happen to favor should not be held to the same standards is why I have concluded that the underlying principle is that all people are not created equal. That is also born out in positions regarding equal rights, voting rights, and economic policies that might benefit the poor rather than the middle to upper-middle class.