2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I feel crazy seeing some of these responses to Bernie's speech. [View all]global1
(25,422 posts)The responses from Hillary supporters to his speech tonight reminds me of the divide we have in Congress. Two sides of the aisle that don't listen to each other and continually say 'white' when the other side says 'black'.
All of us here on DU complain about that divide in Congress and here we have a similar divide right here on DU between the Hillary supporters (who incidently won the nomination and is the presumptive nominee) and the Bernie supporters that only want to put the Democratic values back into the Democratic Party.
It's really sad that the Hillary supporters see Bernie's ideals as bad, wrong, foreign. He's only sticking up for the 99%'ers and he has people in his own Party criticizing him for it.
I just don't get it.
We need a Bernie in the background to keep those ideals alive and hold those Dems, Repugs and anybody else's feet to the fire and keep them honest.
Hillary is going to be the next President. Yes - she'll be the first women President as well. She - as well as her supporters will achieve their lifelong goals. I think that that is great.
But just like we all supported Obama during his bid for the Presidency against John McCain and Mitch Romney - Obama has done some things that we here at DU criticize from time to time. We do that to keep him honest and on-beam for us and there is nothing wrong with that.
We will need to do the same for Hillary as she becomes President. We're like 'checks and balances'.
And yes - you Hillary supporters - at some time in her Presidency will not agree with her. I was one of the biggest cheerleaders for Obama - but I came to realize that he has strayed from some of his ideals and that was a rude awakening for me to accept.
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