2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can Bernie supporters comprehend why someone would prefer Hillary over Bernie? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... in just a name calling exercise where it is pretty obvious that they don't understand what the meaning behind those terms are, only that they can just call people these names to try and engender hate towards that person amongst their fellows that have the same hate, that is more driven out of their own racist core than anything else.
Look how so many of them in the very same posters they hold up (sorry for the offensive nature of some of these here), just to try and criticize someone that they don't like when they have no substantive words they can say against him.
I KNOW these are offensive. But I think it is important that we see how they characterize someone they don't like when they don't know how to substantively criticize him. That is what is reflected by those who throw up the "socialist" moniker as a reason to not vote for someone like Bernie. It's the same mind set. More and more people are discovering that "socialism" isn't the bad term we've come to think of it as. Do we have a lot of pressure to attack one of our big socialist programs in "social security" to be renamed to something like "capitalist security" so that it can be looked on as not being a communist conspiracy? Too many people know the substance of "social security" being something that they and their family depends on as they get older, and that is why it doesn't get attacked in the same way.