2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Susan Sarandon has a great locale for your next workers' council meeting. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)in our current election has been spared the denigration and trash talking of DanTex. He did it to Hillary, now to Bernie, he does it to various uppity liberals. Who else does those things? Many, many right wing pundits.
It is interesting on DU that people pick up a prop, a candidate, and use that candidate as shield while they bash endlessly at other candidates and at Democratic voters. The choice of props does not matter to them 'I'll be for Hillary this year, against her the next whatever allows me to trash talk the most Democrats with the most safety'.
That's why it does matter that so many here who are devoted to Hillary now were insanely against her in 08. They are not really for her, they were not really against her. She's a sort of rhetorical duck blind they use 'See, I'm for Hillary, so when I say all this right wing shit it's not because I'm right wing!!!' For her, against her but always against many Democrats and against many DUers. Always. That really does tell us much.