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BlueMTexpat

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4. This has been my problem with so many
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:36 AM
Mar 2016

SBS supporters here on DU. I have consistently requested politely for them to stop with the GOPer (aka Fox News) TPs. For this, I was blocked from the Sanders Group some months ago (not a big loss, IMO) and have been called "patronizing," "cognitively dissonant," "intellectually dishonest" and much, much worse.

There are plenty of ways that they can support Bernie without trashing Hillary and many of his supporters do that. Hillary's decisions and policies are fair game. And yes, she is not perfect. But the OTT caricatures that rely on and consistently repeat GOPer TPs are NOT fair. They are smear tactics, no less. All things considered, Hillary is still the strongest Dem candidate and certainly the best qualified candidate for President by any objective measure.

I found this telling from the excerpt that I quoted:

To create a caricature of Bernie Sanders that would equal the one thrown at Hillary Clinton, you’d have to call him Stalin. He’s not, and neither is she the incarnation of evil.
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