"You're meeting with the Pope?" "Yup".

[King_Klonopin]

290. The in-fighting between the HRC camp and Bernie camp here on DU is becoming tiresome

and, sadly, it will be self-defeating in the end. Are you willing to become cannibals in order to be "right"?

Hillary supporters desperately want her to win the democratic nomination, same as the Bernie supporters do. We
will have our disagreements. Unfortunately, the discussion threads on DU too often digresses into a smug and
nasty bickering match coming from BOTH sides.

Fellow democrats are sounding like republicans in blue clothing when they repeatedly use snarky talking points,
such as "Saint Bernie", "the liar" (remember Al Gore?), "he's angry" (remember Howard Dean?), "fairy tale dreamer",
"revolutionary", "the socialist"., etc. The reality is that each side is going to do whatever it takes and push the
envelope as far as possible in order to win. Neither side is 100% pure and neither side is 100% purulent.

Individuals have the right to choose whomever they feel better represents their ideals and principles. Both
candidates will make mistakes and miscues during their campaigns, but we should not devour each other or look
to score cheap points when this happens.

DU discussion threads will just continue to be more of a turn-off and more demoralizing if we don't stop.

In the words of the cab driver speaking to Elaine in a Seinfeld episode: "Smugness is not a very good quality."