Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Personal attacks are getting really vicious against me the more I speak out. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)it's becoming harder and harder to justify support for HRC. And the harder it gets, the weaker SHE gets, the more vicious the attacks are.
There's really very little they can attack Bernie with. On issues? He leaves her in the dust on economic justice, and passes her without a problem on social justice. So what have they got? The traditional push to marginalize candidates from the left. It's not working this time, though. Nothing their doing is working, which is why the attacks are getting more and more vicious. And it's why there's suddenly a Biden frenzy. If HRC can't do it, and she can't, somebody has got to rein in the left. I don't think that's going to work, either.
It shouldn't surprise me anymore, really, but it does. I'm always about issues. I'm a Sanders supporter because he's got the best record and best platform...on issues.
It is illogical and unreasonable to me to see people shouting about issues one moment, and shoving those same issues under the rug, or rationalizing, the next when it threatens the status of an individual Democrat. For so many, it seems to be more about the story you tell, the way you spin reality, than the actual issues affecting people on the ground.
This is the best, and maybe the only, chance Democrats have to take their party back from neoliberals whose policies have made the party less relevant. I honestly don't get why any Democrat wouldn't want to do so.
Except for neoliberal Democrats, of course. Are there really that many of them?