Guys, after seeing the Sanders supporters show their royal hineys in CaliDem's OP

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2. Perfectly said. And I forgot where one person enters the thread and said that Hillary's 87%

support in the black community was proof of people "voting against their best interests." Wow. And when told how smug and needlessly superior s/he sounded, just brushed it off as usual.

But your point about Sanders growing up in segregated America is well made. But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. If he did grow up in segregated Brooklyn but still marched in support of black civil rights, that is really genuinely awesome and he deserves alot of praise for that. But what's he done in the last 50 years that deserves praise?

Many of the most vocal Sanders supporters are the very same people who dismiss cases of racism, sexism, and homophobia routinely, or even as sport. But the Clinton supporters by and large are the people who have these issues on their radar. THere seems to be a real trend. It gives me pause.

It actually doesn't surprise me that much. The level of political understanding and sophistication on DU is so tiny that it doesn't surprise me in the least that so many of the loudest, most clueless people here are screaming in praise of a 70 year old socialist who's not even a Democrat. And you can bet much of that praise is because -- even though they'd deny this until the cows come home -- they know deep down he would never win and thus, never have the chance to govern. Which means he'll never get the chance to "disappoint" them because he'll never have to actually do anything.