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Why "Bernie Bro" Myth Is BogusCenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore, Ana Kasparian talk about "Bernie Bros" myth.
Cenk yells for a while
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)and one of them works for Hillary Clinton.
It's not as if there haven't been rotten smears in the past. I remember one my grandparents and parents talked about--a wonderful leftist named Hellen Gahagan Douglas, who was smeared by Richard Nixon as a "communist" in the early 1950s in Los Angeles, in a congressional race. This was a long time ago, and I remember my grandpa darkly predicting that Nixon would be president some day. (It was a successful smear--he won.)
But I've never seen quite the growth of this malignant politics as we have today, and, frankly, I can't think of any DEMOCRAT who has done it, except Hillary Clinton. It is shocking. To portray THE greatest leftist of our era--greatest because he has taken on this amazing campaign--as a sexist and a racist IS mindboggling. It is the definition of mindboggling. It twists reality--and minds--into knots, and baffles reason itself. And it's being done, in typical Brockian style, SNEAKILY, with paid operatives and planted lies and dirty tricks.
That's the hell of it. It's so sneaky.
But here's a nice bit from wiki:
In September 2015, Brock and Correct the Record produced a piece on Bernie Sanders, linking him to Hugo Chavez and far-left British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The Huffington Post ran an article about the attack. The result was a huge increase in contributions to the Sanders campaign.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)He's to the left of the Labour party, the official opposition, but I suppose when you come from a country where the Republican forerunner talks of building walls and banning all Moslems anything centrist or even centre right seems left wing.
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)In Europe it's centrist, even moderately right wing to support UHC. David Cameron wouldn't dare talk about dismantling the NHS. It would be electoral suicide. In far right America Republicans call it Socialised Medicine and talk of repealing Obamacare.
America is far to the right of and out of sync with every other liberal democracy on the planet.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)The NHS has never been safe in Tory hands. That's why the Junior Doctors are taking industrial action.
The point remains, if Cameron said he intended to dismantle the NHS it would be electoral suicide.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)I see some things here and it goes beyond face palming to
That is yet another reason why I am voting for Bernie Sanders.
waltben
(31 posts)That Cenk & the Turks came to the same conclusion as I have a month ago when this garbage started! They did dig up facts supporting it that I didn't, but the whole Bernie Bros anti-Hillary and anti-Elizabeth thing simply smacks too much of dirty tricks to be real. That the most offensive post was by a teabagger is interesting, but I still suspect even that may turn out to be by a paid hack. There's too much of this crap going on in GOPer-land and we don't need it in ours.
greymouse
(872 posts)And her wallowing in this crooked stuff is just one of them. She's a disgrace to the Democratic party.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said he doesn't want support from the sexist "Bernie bros" backing his campaign.
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)support Hillary.
Some people think Dirty Tricks are a political asset. I am sick of that shit.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Plainsman1
(25 posts)Either Senator Sanders or Secretary Clinton will get my vote in November. We might be able to rely on the Republicans self-destructing, but I doubt it. I'm not sure how Cenk becomes a supporter of the Democratic nominee if Senator Sanders is unsuccessful.
1monster
(11,012 posts)The dirty tricks have been coming out since before Bernie officially announced. First it was that Bernie was an out of touch white guy who didn't have a clue and was a one track candidate. He isn't and his campaign is multi-faceted. But the nonsense just keeps on keeping on.
appalachiablue
(41,144 posts)Gloria Steinem on Bill Maher said young women want to be 'where the Boys are'-with Bernie.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)I've lost so much respect for so many people this go round....unfuckingbelievable!
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)K&R!