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Aquaria

(1,076 posts)
42. When his supporters
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 04:08 PM
Mar 2020

Stop acting like they’re not only more-liberal-than-thou, but the only “true” liberals—while being willing to throw women minorities, LGBTs, workers, the poor, the elderly, the sick, the environment and more under the bus in the name of their ideological purity;

Stop hurling the ridiculous slander of “corporate” or “establishment” or “centrist” Democrat at anyone and everyone who dares to criticize or disagree with their Dear Leader;

Who tell the winning side in this primary that we have to cater to their losing candidate and his self-serving preachments —“ideas” that the voters most likely to consider them (you know, primary voters) don’t even want, and yet these same whiners think their ideas will win with a far less receptive audience in the general election, when they won’t be;

When they say our candidate has to pamper, coddle and cater to a demographics that can’t even bother to show up to vote for their guy in the here and now, when they should be the most motivated to get him to the next level, never mind doing it in November, while known voters are ripe for the taking (suburban soccer moms)—voters who do NOT have the same enthusiasm for your candidates stale “ideas;”

When you stop making outrageous claims about conspiracies and rigged votes and who know what other idiotic imagined phantasms that you can conjure up, rather than facing the reality that DEMOCRATIC VOTERS—LIBERALS—rejected your candidate and his “ideas,” and when you stop blaming the DNC, or “the establishment,” or the “corporate Dems” or the Illuminati or whoever the fuck your bogeyman of choice is rather than how VOTERS just weren’t into your candidate;

Then maybe people would be less critical and on edge about the destructiveness and selfishness of the candidate who is not only losing the nomination but also demonstrated zero effort to play well with others in support of the Democratic Party and it’s candidates, or, well, anyone in his entire DC career.

I’ve seen little in the way of criticizing the supporters other than legitimate complaints about their outright and frequent rudeness and occasional dishonesty about and toward other candidates and their supporters. Outside of that, much like deplorables, bernbots see any criticism of their Dear Leader as “attacks” on him and on themselves.

And you know what? I don’t appreciate threats from a MINORITY of voters who throw childish tantrums that threaten to take their toys and go home if they can’t get what they want, never mind what anyone else wants and needs. You’ve had your chance to persuade voters about your “ideas” of how to get where the Democratic needs to go and how. Those voters have made it clear they have other ideas about how to get there.

Rather than whining or throwing temper tantrums about it, grow up, pull up your big kid pants, and MOVE ON to support the candidate we have.

Plenty of us didn’t get our first choice, but we did the adult thing of getting the fuck over it to support the only candidate left. We did it not because we’re stupid or centrist or not liberal enough, but because we know he’s a good man with his head and heart in the right place, so we can trust him to do more good for the people of this country—ALL of them—than the treasonous, bigoted slimeball of a psychopath in office now. We do it because not voting for Biden or voting from some money-grubbing 3rd party kook will only get us four more years of the most irredeemable and evil psychopath ever vomited onto humanity.

We understand what’s really at stake here. It’s time for BS, the bomb-thrower lunatics in his own staff and those like them who are among his supporters to grow the fuck up and face that reality.

Maybe in another election we could blow them off, but not this time. Not when any chance of having decency and serving the greater good in this country is at stake. If the Democrat does not win this year, this country is DONE.

We who have gotten behind Biden for this, even when he wasn’t our first choice understand that the time for infighting is OVER. We put on our big kid pants and accept him as the nominee. It’s time for the deluded BS and his most reprehensible staff and supporters to do the same. If you don’t, then you can’t complain when real liberals criticize you and your candidate for caring more about your egos than about the country.

Or when we point out your hypocrisy for claiming to care oh-so-much-more than the rest of us about the vulnerable and oppressed, but how your not voting or throwing away your vote for mere spite insures the election of the candidate most likely to harm those very people you “claim” to care about gets elected.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
Because Bernie is still in attack mode. Nt William769 Mar 2020 #1
"An eye for an eye, SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #5
"Turn the other cheek". But, there are only four cheeks on the human body. nt Atticus Mar 2020 #24
Should we sit back and take the lickings from Bernie and co? Sunsky Mar 2020 #58
Once the primary is over, we'll stand side by side again. LanternWaste Mar 2020 #2
This +1 LongtimeAZDem Mar 2020 #3
Missing my point entirely SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #6
Acrimony is being created by Sanders' staffers and surrogates, and he's doing nothing about it. George II Mar 2020 #9
Sanders' staffers and surrogates are not the folks posting negatively on DU. n/t thesquanderer Mar 2020 #11
How many times have we seen that truncated video of Biden "calling for cuts to SS"? How many times.. George II Mar 2020 #14
Honestly, I haven't seen either of them here on DU. (nt) thesquanderer Mar 2020 #17
I have. And aside from just DU, over the weekend David Sirota posted at least 20 times a video.... George II Mar 2020 #19
++++++++++++++++++ emmaverybo Mar 2020 #25
We went through the same in 2016 mercuryblues Mar 2020 #63
Furthermore, look at this posted here on DU just minutes ago: George II Mar 2020 #22
I never said there are no anti-Biden posts on DU. thesquanderer Mar 2020 #23
Considering that Biden has more than double the support on DU as Sanders (now 36%-14%).... George II Mar 2020 #27
I think Biden having more than double Sanders' support here is a relatively recent occurrence... thesquanderer Mar 2020 #38
I have Tweedy Mar 2020 #45
check out Twitter. barbtries Mar 2020 #41
I'm not on twitter. But this thread has been about posts on DU. thesquanderer Mar 2020 #47
they could be considered informative barbtries Mar 2020 #48
Twitter is largely a cesspool of crap, from what I've seen. (Facebook too.) thesquanderer Mar 2020 #66
you may think it's a cesspool of crap. barbtries Mar 2020 #67
I have no problem with people who use twitter or facebook. I'm just saying... thesquanderer Mar 2020 #69
I agree with that about Twitter! True Blue American Mar 2020 #52
No, but they are posting on twitter dansolo Mar 2020 #50
His staff is too busy calling Tom Perez a murderer on twitter KitSileya Mar 2020 #56
+1 betsuni Mar 2020 #57
Oh please... you're worried about a handful of Sanders supporters? Meanwhile... NurseJackie Mar 2020 #61
He has negative ads out in swing states. showblue22 Mar 2020 #4
I'm talking about how nasty the attacks are here SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #8
The two (attack ads and the reaction here) are connected Hav Mar 2020 #13
EXACTLY! I don't see why some CanNOT See That! Cha Mar 2020 #31
People are angry because Democrats have been attacked for decades by one candidate.... George II Mar 2020 #7
Precisely, George! Cha Mar 2020 #32
+ 1000 n/t MFGsunny Mar 2020 #54
It could all stop easily frazzled Mar 2020 #10
Exactly. He can suspend his campaign and start R B Garr Mar 2020 #12
Thank You! "By the way, it's not trolls, it's Democrats" Cha Mar 2020 #34
Bernie can stop all of the brickbat by dropping out NCProgressive Mar 2020 #15
"But he started it..." ibegurpard Mar 2020 #16
I agree with you Andy823 Mar 2020 #18
I personally don't consider him a "fellow progressive"... Blasphemer Mar 2020 #20
Exactly! nt showblue22 Mar 2020 #21
So Sanders supporters are not 'natural allies' SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #26
I'm also commited to voting out Trump. I'm confident that everyone who feels the same will vote. nt Blasphemer Mar 2020 #30
The outrage is not against fellow progressives. It is against those who prevent fellow progressives beastie boy Mar 2020 #28
' Bernie supporters don't own the "progressive" label.' barbtries Mar 2020 #43
I don't love Sanders and he is helping Trump...he needs to concede...we have seen this before... Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #29
Tell people like Nina Turner and David Sirota to shut the hell up LakeArenal Mar 2020 #33
Yeah.. if he really wants it to stop. Cha Mar 2020 #35
Things will settle down Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #36
I think most people's minds are made up, so let's just be polite while the votes are counted bluedye33139 Mar 2020 #37
Sanders is hurting us. Yet, we are being told to please be quiet. LizBeth Mar 2020 #39
Sanders isn't stopping. barbtries Mar 2020 #40
When his supporters Aquaria Mar 2020 #42
excellent post. nt barbtries Mar 2020 #44
Here's the thing-- Tweedy Mar 2020 #46
I agree ecdab Mar 2020 #49
Hey I like both candidates but reality sets in duforsure Mar 2020 #51
"Why are so many still in primary attack mode?" betsuni Mar 2020 #53
Let's be real...the people you're talking about never stopped ms liberty Mar 2020 #55
Good post mvd Mar 2020 #59
This pandering to Sanders has got to stop. He's got beaten out the gate, and should do the right OnDoutside Mar 2020 #60
I just heard a call-in from a Bernie supporter bring up Burisma and Hunter??!! Walleye Mar 2020 #62
The only one who can stop the division is Bernie himself; if he starts now, he MIGHT be able to LongtimeAZDem Mar 2020 #64
You have only two choices SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #65
As I said, the only one that can change things is Bernie himself; unless he actively works to bring LongtimeAZDem Mar 2020 #68
Thank you! renate Mar 2020 #70
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