There is a hugh risk in playing the emotions card.

[Skwmom]

It has become obvious that political operatives think there is only an upside to playing the emotions card (especially with women).

However, if you are going to play the emotions card, you're candidate better have clean hands. Otherwise you are at risk of suffering a huge backlash. That is one thing that really pisses off most women. They don't like to feel played. They don't like to think that someone has tried to take advantage of their feelings.

The same goes for the use of the gender card (especially when it's unwarranted use can lead to women suffering from actual sexism being ignored because people will just think they are playing the gender card). In fact, you play the emotion card when you play the gender card.

[emulatorloo]

1. What is the "emotions card"? Have not heard of that. Thanks in advance!

[Skwmom]

5. It is when you try to win voters (especially women) by playing on their emotions.

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You can play the emotions card by playing the gender card. You play it anytime you are trying to appeal to someone's emotions (especially women).

They do it when they attack Bernie on guns. They do it when they play the victim card. They do it when they hold themselves out as the defender of women and children. They do it when they try to pull on your heart strings to support policies that have been devastating to the working class. I've mentioned in other posts how they try to use those they exploit to uphold policies that have devastated this country and its people.

You can see the corp media also beating this theme. There was an article defending the payment of 91 cents per hour to prisoners who manufactured solar panels by saying that it enabled the company to keep 300 regular jobs in the U.S. As if somehow that makes it okay.

[emulatorloo]

6. Thanks for the explanation. Appreciate you taking the time.

[one_voice]

22. Just for clarity on this one point...

They do it when they attack Bernie on guns.

By 'they' are you including the daughter of the Sandy Hook victim?

[Skwmom]

25. No I am not. They aren't exploiting anyone,

[one_voice]

27. I was pretty sure you weren't.

thanks for the clarification.

[Dem2]

29. She did indeed tell Trump where to shove that misogyny card!

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-04-27/hillary-clinton-responds-to-trump-s-woman-card-remark

[Squinch]

2. What are you talking about?

[NurseJackie]

4. My thoughts exactly.

It's a stream-of-consciousness trainwreck. I'm not even going to wait around for the medics to arrive and try to translate it. It's probably best for me to just go ahead and hide the thread.

[randome]

18. Nurse! We need a nurse over here quick!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[KittyWampus]

3. what do you think Sanders has done since day 1? He's been playing to anger.

When you play to people's anger, they don't care if you don't actually have workable solutions. Empty rhetoric will do.

The leftwing version of what Trump is doing.

It's called "demagoguery".

[Skwmom]

7. Big difference. The anger was already there because of what is happening to this country and its

people.

Bernie is not engaging in demagoguery. It only seems so to those who are comfortable with or accepting of our current corrupt system and its limitations for the people.

We never would have overcome slavery or had the American Revolution with the corporate mindset of so many.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. It's not playing when you really are outraged.

I doubt that Clinton has an easy time using words like "pay gap", "patriarchy" and "oppression" while sitting in a $6 million house and giving speeches to Wall Street.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. what exactly is the gender card? or the emotions card?

[auntpurl]

10. I think it might be...being a woman?

It's hard to say for sure, as the OP is pretty incoherent, but I think they might be trying to say that because Hillary is a woman and is in favour of women's rights, she's playing some sort of "card"?

Man, I've got a vagina but I never thought I got a card out of it. Where's my card?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. agreed. she is a woman who has consistently supported women

and women's rights. so clearly she is playing a gender card.

she has emotions and occasionally expresses them. so clearly it's a card.

these people are cray with the accusations. completely cray cray.

[That Guy 888]

12. Check response #5

It doesn't seem like either you or your partner read the responses, just came in with your rehearsed answer.

A+ for coordination, C- for timing as the op clarified in response #5. Do HRC supporters coordinate in the DU pouting chamber or on one of the offsite ones?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. i did and it made no sense to me.

she is playing the emotions cards because of guns? really?

that's just pathetic.

[That Guy 888]

15. Ah yes that Clinton supporter response. I don't understand, waste your time explaining it to me.

I remember right-wing bush supporters doing it all the time. It's a weird similarity that I find troubling and a little off-putting.

[athena]

13. Basically,

anything any Hillary supporter says will be called some kind of a card by Bernie supporters. If it they can't call it the "sexism card" or the "racism card", they'll call it the "emotion card." (I'm still waiting to be accused of using the "logic card".)

And if Bernie uses the same argument, it's a valid argument, not a card. Whether it's a "card" or not depends completely on who is using it.

[That Guy 888]

16. You would have to use logic to be in danger of being accussed of "playing it" like a card.

[athena]

20. Typical Bernie supporter: responds with personal attacks and mockery instead of logic.

I have posted plenty of rock-solid arguments. If the argument goes against a Bernie supporter's beliefs, their response is either a personal attack or "LOL". So far, I have not seen a single Bernie supporter here who was capable of being civil. Sadly, your post is no exception.

[That Guy 888]

32. No rock-solid argument was posted here, only the usual butt-hurt and anger of an HRC supporter

Angry and butt-hurt whether she is winning or losing.

Has Sanders accused Clinton of sexism? Clinton accused Sanders of sexism because she doesn't want to release her Wall St. transcripts.

The fact that most of the United States thinks of the South as "the Confederacy" means that Bernie Sanders and all of his supporters are racist for stating that the most conservative Democratic voters live in the South. Did Sanders say Clinton was a racist for her stereotype-based pandering outreach to minority voters? (No, she doesn't remind me of my Abuela)

So far, I have not seen a single Bernie supporter here who was capable of being civil. Sadly, your post is no exception.

Check the responses to the OP by you and your fellow travelers, would you say that you are being "civil"?

[LexVegas]

17. Good fucking question. nt

[Bobbie Jo]

19. So what's up with all the "card playing" references

around here?

At what point did we start co-opting this smarmy RW language?

[randome]

21. Let's adopt the language of the detractors, shall we?

"They received their talking points this morning."
"It's a new meme they're trial-ballooning."
"They're all paid trolls."
"They're just shilling for Bernie."

I'm sure there are others.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[Bobbie Jo]

26. I remember when "race card" was all the rage

around here too.

Make no mistake, it's a RW construct intended to be dismissive of certain people and their concerns.

[JaneyVee]

30. Yup.

[randome]

34. It's like accusing people who support gay rights of supporting discrimination against religion.

"We have the right to treat people like crap!"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[one_voice]

23. anyone up for a spades

tournament? I mean if we're playing cards anyway?

[Bobbie Jo]

31. Right?

Deal me in!

I'll bring the beer.

[Dem2]

24. Oh, you mean how she slapped Trump down for playing the misogyny card

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-04-27/hillary-clinton-responds-to-trump-s-woman-card-remark

Boom!

Must have bothered you that she sounded so strong there.

[JaneyVee]

28. I think its Bernie playing the emotions card.

[Skwmom]

33. Nope. Bernie is just attracting people fed up with our corrupt govt that does not work for the

people.