2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Condescending Hillary fans: Man, did this pro-Bernie blogger get it right. [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)of people support Bernie is because they hate Hillary. That people are only pretending to agree with Bernie because they hate Hillary. That is delusional. At best. But it tells me that they don't care about issues, they just care about Hillary getting elected.
Just a rudimentary search on "Pledge-y Thing" shows me that the "loyalty pledge" has been used to hi-jack threads since January, at least. I got the feeling that the intent of the Hillary roll-out was to immediately crush the thought of anyone opposing her at all. All the wrong buttons were pushed - because she is a woman! because it is her turn! because polls so far out as to be meaningless! Because she has the big money and endorsements sewn up!
If you are going to vote for her if she wins the nomination, why not just vote for her in the primary! Why, as a matter of fact, do we need a primary - waste all that money, give the GOP ammo to use against her - as if they don't have tons of it right now, that they have been amassing as happily and as assiduously as Smaug accumulated his gold - and most of it, really, supplied by the Clintons.
I don't think Hillary's supporters understand, too, that the only concern about Benghazi is that it perfectly illustrates how very much the GOP hates her, which makes the meme of "the GOP won't work with Bernie" and "the GOP won't work with any Democratic president" kinda moot. Or maybe, if we believe the president would be powerless, we should award the presidency to Hillary just because she wants it so very very much?
I don't have anyone on hide because, I confess, I kinda like the thwarted and condescending authoritarian stuff. My bad. And then there is the mindless mean-spirited stuff, which shows up like clockwork, and has no effect or meaning, really, except for showing us the mindset of the poster. Shrug.
I do not think this campaign can safely and smugly depend on demographics.