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In reply to the discussion: I've noticed some "progressives" seem to think Hillary owes them something [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)against some "progressives" in here? Why not just post a reaction in that thread then, or at least be honest and state in your OP what it is about and is directed towards ONE member about ONE statement. Even if one or two agreed, your rant comes off as a Don Quixote attack.
I wouldn't agree with her speaking out about it now either (although she definitely should have earlier) but still that suggestion doesn't seem to warrant the vitriolic backlash. I think there is more going on with that.
You quote:
"There are a lot of people across the political spectrum who must be feeling an aching emptiness after having devoted so much of their lives to destroying her."
Do you really think there is a significant crowd in here that feels like that? And in spite of the fact that we were 80% in Bernies camp. It feels like you are shouting to JPR, so why not go there to give them an earful. All you do by posting this tripe in here is come off sounding hollow. You don't have any audience but those who desperately want to vent their anger somewhere along with you.
Another quote:
"They don't seem to know what to do with themselves without her."
I think you are projecting with that little Freudian slip. We get it. Even us that preferred Bernie.
My gawd...how do think we felt when we finally knew after California that what we thought was a once-in-a-lifetime candidate would never be able to win, knowing that he had the momentum once people actually got to hear him, but how the cards were always stacked against him with the SD pre-casting their votes before he even started, and the MSM refused to cover his rallies...add to that suspicions (later proved true) that the DNC was stepping on the scales for Hillary?...
Yet the vast majority of us, followed Bernie's lead and swallowed that bitter pill, set aside our differences after a major kick in the gut, and supported Hillary. And in here? OMG the hubris and celebrations once the more vocal Bernie supporters were censored and whisked out. If you even dared, as I did, to caution that Trump could very well win, you were laughed off as a 'concern troll'.
And now you want to kick us around some more? Your OP sounds to me like it is directed towards those that voted for Trump, or didn't vote for Hillary, which I'd suggest would be a tiny tiny percent in here if any. You blow up one DUer that suggested Hillary should speak out on the pipeline protest...into some sort of army of Trump supporters in here picking on the poor poor DUers that were with Clinton the whole way.
We get it...it hurts. We had to swallow our own bitter pill with Bernie and all he stood for being defeated...and we pulled up our bootstraps and worked with Hillary supporters in fighting Trump and his dangerous brand. And then we got kicked in the gut a second time with Trump winning regardless.
Its time for some of the Clinton supporters to grow up and start acting like adults again and take your medicine, stop blindly lashing out at your allies, and start to try and work with ALL Democrats and even left leaning independents, to elect downticket Dems for the mid terms.