2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: She's SUCH A LIAR. And she thinks people are STUPID. [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Just dipping into the Hillary Clinton Group, I find, on the very first page of the thread listing, these specimens: "Bernie Sanders declares war on reality" and "How stupid do they think we are?" (Note the similarity of that last one to the second half of the title you object to.) I could of course multiply the examples if I troubled to check later HCG pages or to include GD-P in my survey.
In this thread we're in now, I personally, had I been posting along the lines of the OP, would have chosen a different title. But that's just my personal style. Most of my arguing is done in legal briefs submitted to judges, and the accepted norm in the field is that language is more restrained (some might say bloodless). Most Clinton supporters and most Sanders supporters haven't been shaped by years of writing in that kind of environment. Instead, they cut loose. DU might be a better place if no Sanders supporters wrote thread titles like this one, or if no Clinton supporters called us "bed bugs" (the latest encomium I've added to my collection), but anyone posting here has to recognize that some people will write that way.
I look forward to reading your further thoughts on the OP.