2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]still_one
(91,807 posts)both sides:
The post that started it was a response to an OP from Salon which inferred the following:
"Theyre terrified of Bernie Sanders: Fox News, Hillary surrogates and Wall Street get extra-nervous". This was followed by the opinion piece from Salon..
The comment made was to this OP was the following:
"You've got these fools on the run now! "
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=484074
The response to that was from someone, I assume was a Hillary supporter who made the following comment:
"Who are these fools?
Fox News the GOP or Hillary supporters? Might help to clarify that you don't consider the supporters of the Democratic front runner fools."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=484084
The response I made to this was the following:
" One would think so. Whoever gets the Democratic nomination, that winner is going to need the supporters of the other Democratic candidates to win the general election, so it definitely would not be in their best interest to refer to another candidates supporters as "fools". Doesn't win friends for sure "
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=484093
The response I received from to my post was the question, "Are you a Hillary surrogate?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=484113
Not entirely sure what that meant in regard to my post, and perhaps it was sarcasm, but wasn't that clear to me. I am probably dense.
There are other posts, which are more blatant, and I admit it happens on both sides, though to be objective, I haven't seen O'Malley supporters getting involved in that much sparing against each other's supporters, but that could be because he hasn't had enough visibility yet.
My point is simply, that it is NOT in the interest of ANY candidate to insult supporters of the opposing candidate. However, a candidate's supporters should, and do critisize the opposing candidates on the issues, and extoll the virtues of their candidate on the issues. That is the way it should be.