2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Very disappointing: Bernie Sanders repeats falsehoods about data breach. [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)and stupid it is.
Because even though the ONE thing that is irrefutable in all of this -- that the Sanders campaign is the one that engaged in unethical and possibly illegal behavior -- Sanders supporters keep trying to portray every thing he does as noble and valiant. As though he is slaying some mythical beast instead of actually helping it along.
People here keep hollering about how DWS' banning his campaign from accessing their content was without merit because "look how quickly she pulled it" without seeing to understand that the reason they were again able to access their files was because the Sanders campaign finally cooperated with the DNC.
It might make people feel better to say that it was Sanders' David vs the DNC that brought the DNC to its knees but its apparent to every thinking person that Sanders got access to his data again because his campaign finally cooperated with the DNC. This almost obsessive reluctance from Sanders supporters to admit that he was wrong and has handled this INCREDIBLY badly since is leading to alot of this foolish behavior. No matter how badly he behaves, his fans cheer which seems to encourage more bad behavior and incredibly, fundraising off of the bad behavior. It is a textbook definition of a self-fulfilling bias.