Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumSanders supporters call for demonstration against "her majesty"
For refusing to drop out of the race and concede to someone who trails by 2.5 million votes. Their cause: opposition to majority rule and the electoral rights of voters. "Her majesty," defined as a woman who refuses to stay in her place and accept that a man, even one with the single lowest rating of bipartisanship and accomplishment in the Senate, has a birthright to seize office without facing any criticism or challenge.
Make no mistake about it, the attack on Clinton and the vitriol directed toward her is a thinly veiled assault on the rights of the electorate to choose their nominee by the ballot box. They target her because the ultimate goal is to strip away the rights of the women, people of color, and union members who make up the majority of the Democratic electorate. This call follows months of attacks on civil rights groups, unions, progressive advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Council, and progressives like Dolores Huerta, Al Franken, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Mothers of the Movement. Meanwhile, they defend obscene levels of wealth for any and every 1 percenter associated with the Sanders campaign and $800k a month profits for his political operatives, whereas lowly citizens have no right to criticize the wealthy allied with Sanders.
They protest Clinton because ultimately what they resent are the majority of Democratic voters who have cast their votes for her, and those votes stand in the way of what they feel us their rightful place to rule over the majority without our consent--indeed, in violation of the will of the electorate. The denunciations of "Third Way" and "social justice warriors" (something they decided were one in the same) preceded Sanders candidacy by years. It is that electorate who has been in their sites far longer than Sanders has been running.
They habitually insult every American who dares to vote independently of their control. They attack women and people in color in particular as "vagina voters," "stupid," "uninformed," or scheme to find ways to disenfranchise entire swaths of the country or overturn elections in which voters decided against the candidate they insist be installed in power against the electoral will of the people. They protest Clinton because what they ultimately resent are our votes and our basic civil rights. Their enemies are not corporations, banks or the wealthy, but the Democratic voter. We have always been the target and Sanders is simply the vehicle through which they seek to reestablish their uncontested rule over the majority.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)until they morphed into The Red Guard.
pandr32
(11,612 posts)And there is nothing democratic about them
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find out that many so called Bernie supporters are working for the right trying to cause problems and divide democrats so republicans have a better chance come November. Republican really want Bernie to win because they know he can't win the general election.
Cha
(297,655 posts)They give themselves away by dubbing her "her majesty".. It shows they refuse to acknowledge all the decades of her service and all her experience of advocating for women and children. Ignoring everything that she's accomplished over a life time.
They want everyone to pretend her service to our country as President Obama's SOS didn't happen.. they're trying to reduce her to nothing.. just like the rwingers do.
I hope this is the last time a Democratic Primary has someone running who wants to tear the Democratic party to shreds... he can't run on his record so he belittles President Obama's legacy and hurls hate @ SOS Hillary Clinton.
Sad for him and his "revolution" that he needed an unpopular President to run against and Obama is Steady Strong @ 53%. Where was he and his revolution when bush was in power?
He's too late.. Obama started it 2008 and Hillary will carry it on in 2017.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)and that their protest is about trying to get her to bow down to someone who has not been able to attract anywhere near that number of votes.
Cha
(297,655 posts)campaign strategy ever.
Good practice for Hillary.. on a smaller scale.. she'll be dealing with World leaders like putin .. She can manage these bullies.
but the fact is they are harassing and threatening ordinary voters who shouldn't have to take their shit.
They are nothing for Clinton, a minor irritation. The far more serious problem is that they have formed ranks around opposition to the the right of the electorate to choose their nominee, and ultimately president, via the battle box. They are ultimately targeting electoral democracy itself. Of course they believe democracy is determined only by their choice prevailing, even when the majority supports someone else. But democracy requires acceptance of the right of the majority to elect leaders, even when that choice differs from one's own. That is what they refuse to accept.
Cha
(297,655 posts)that stops them in their delusional tracks soon if they don't just self-implode.. you know they see it. If BS thinks these bullies are going to get him to the White House he needs to get real about this if nothing else.
Thankfully, there's just one caucus left.. Wyoming.
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)Oh the irony, trying to force out the candidate with the most votes to hand the nomination to her competitor.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)and entitlement course attracted by "free stuff."
The Tsar's riches, the Bourbon fortunes, the Shah Mohammad Reza Pehlavi's estates and Batista's holdings were too attractive to the free-stuff people so they just decided to grab them.
At least the above didn't have an alternative way like an election. The election route is available in the US but it didn't work out for their revolutionary-in-chief. This has brought in the authoritarian, entitlement mindset where the free stuff has to be grabbed by all means necessary, no matter how undemocratic.
This also comes with "out there" slogans like "Bernie is our last hope" as though another progressive like him will never materialize again in 4, 8, 12 or any multiple of 4 years. Bernie is the very last one.
Resorting to misogyny, sexism, "Stockholm syndrome" and similar tactics should get the attention of the NY media and more investigation into the finishes of the sparkling pony will reveal the corroded interior as the vetting process in NY media gets underway.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Showing he doesn't even know what to do in breaking up the banks, one of his daily rants. What does he know.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Revolution goals.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)are scum--and so many follow.
....Resorting to misogyny, sexism, "Stockholm syndrome" and similar tactics should get the attention of the NY media and more investigation into the finishes of the sparkling pony will reveal the corroded interior as the vetting process in NY media gets underway.
George II
(67,782 posts)brer cat
(24,605 posts)Their arrogance in asserting that the candidate they think is best should take the place of the top voter choice is galling. They have demonized Hillary and declared her supporters too stupid or poorly informed to count. The insults are very telling: they support rule by elites, not the people. Are they going to take us back to only white, male property owners being allowed to choose our leaders?
mcar
(42,372 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)You said it so much better than I ever could.
I am appalled that they think it's OKAY to disenfranchise the MAJORITY who are certainly speaking at the ballot box. The misogyny is blatant. The double standard to which she is held is ridiculous.
Can you imagine if Hillary had made uneducated and empty statements about the central point of her campaign platform? Jeebus, MSM would be ALL over her for it.
We've all seen so many instances of it, including the free press that is given to everyone but her when it comes to the talk show circuit. The top two who get all that free advertising? Trump and Sanders. Clinton is LAST in that metric, but you know, she's the one who gets unfair press advantage. That's because this group wants to silence a strong, intelligent woman.
They don't want to SEE that her lifetime of service and good works appeals to us. Or that her very wonkiness appeals to a great many of us. I LIKE that my candidate is so well informed. I LIKE that she's intelligent and not afraid to show it. I greatly APPRECIATE all the good she's done as a person for so many other people.
But what do I know? I'm just a low informed woman suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)is by the people not corporation. We are voting on her policy. Sanders says, to get his endorsement (knowing he has lost) Clinton must adopt his policies. The PEOPLE voted for Clinton policy. The people voted for Clinton. The people, .... rejected Sanders.
Basically and ironically what is really being said is that Sanders should get the coronation.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)And that is what makes the description of Clinton as "her majesty" so incredibly hypocritical.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)apparently do not understand We the People is a majority not the minority. Guess government is not a strong hold with some.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Discussing the ass Trump is and how Sanders is the same on the other side. Brother just does not get how anyone could support Trump and we discussed how we had the same nonthinking on our side too. Reminding me of the Bush W elections. At least with McCain and Romney, they had some credibility in their policies they put out. Not rainbow and puppy dog tails.
It was fun for once agreeing with brother. I have refused to talk politics with him for about a decade now.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)BainsBane
(53,066 posts)I've thought that so many times.
bpj62
(999 posts)Your third and fourth paragraph are spot on. I am tired of being told that I am some sort of mindless corporate lackey who is incapable of thinking for themselves. I thought long and hard about which candidate to support and subsequently vote for on Super Tuesday. What i find troubling is the vitrol thar Sanders supporters on DU will attack her with anything and everything. Calling her a bitch, a criminal. It is quite sad.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)I can't tell you how many times I've been insulted in the past 24 hours alone. I generally write posts that are well documented, deal with factual points and provide evidence for them. I get responses telling me I'm mentally ill, stupid, or show no signs of intelligence. And they say nothing else, make no effort to refute any of the points or evidence. They claim to care about policy but refuse to discuss it and instead resort to one insult after another.
...must be buried in garbage before anyone else can read it.
See no facts, hear no facts, speak no facts; they hates them, tricksy facts.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Indeed it seems it is Bernie for whom they demand a coronation since he is not winning by votes. They are projecting
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Their tactics of personal insult and destruction are despicable.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)they would implement.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and this is the will of "what" people? They are starting to become violent and I pretty sure eyes are upon them.
George II
(67,782 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)thanks for speaking your mind
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)found amongst North Koreans for their "dear leader".
They know they're going to lose, and stealing delegates in States (like what has happened in NV) isn't going to get them to the magic 2383 number. They know their sorry attempts will be nothing more than another failure to try and force the Democratic Party to bow their heads to their rainbow-farting unicorn candidate...and Democrats all over the country will bathe in their tears of rage and helplessness.
Spot On!
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)The Sanders camp had all these talking points before the first primary and caucus took place. They really believed Sanders would sweep every primary and get millions (or as they like to say, millions and millions) of people voting for the "revolution".
They never even entertained the notion that the opposite would happen...she's the one who's getting the millions of votes. So they are left with their canned, obsolete talking points, which defy any logic. They just sound delusional.
I can't wait for June to arrive.
is in just two weeks time. NY is crucial. We all need to make calls there.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)By now we have all seen that sexism doesn't just come from right wing conservatives.
TMontoya
(369 posts)For Hillary to unleash on Sanders. Its about time the kid gloves come off and expose Sanders for the fantasy land candidate he is.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)She's been treating him with kid gloves. Enough.