2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: You are witnessing the first "Stochastic Smearjob" [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)to hate liberals. And it's turned very violent already. Shooting Bernie's campaign office, vandalizing campaign worker's homes and a male Hillary supporter physically assaulted a woman because she is a Bernie supporter.
They are fomenting the anger just like the right wing does, as you said, and they have created a huge divide in the party that I do not believe will be overcome. It's deeper than degrees of differences on policy stances, it's a major difference in a person's make up and how they conduct themselves. And it's becoming more and more clear that the corporate Dems who are the right wing of the Dem Party are taking on the right wing's tactics and ethics. And it's not pretty.
Smears, lies and bullying. That's not what the Dem Party is supposed to be about.
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