2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dear white progressives: Stop telling black people how to vote [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)I recall posts to the effect "I'm in love" with Elizabeth or Bernie. So funny, as we are accused of thinking of President Obama as our "boyfriend" but just about the same people. For over 6 years now.
The idea of actually supporting a politician made us authoritarians or cheerleaders. We were awash in cynicism. All politicians are evil and self serving and wrong all the time and should get nothing but criticism, true or not. Now they are stuck. Bernie is a politician. How are they going to get around that? He's a Senator. Now before, all of the Senate was corrupt. Anyone who could even win an election must be corrupt, or they could not win the election in the first place. Here is a full blown US Senator who suddenly must be made into a hero!
Suddenly that is not "pathetic" and is not "hero worship!"