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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:10 PM Sep 2016

When did Hillary morph into worse than Cheney/Thatcher/Attila the Hun combined to progressives?

I voted for Sanders in the primaries over Hillary because he really is a lot more progressive than she. However, I've accepted that she is the nominee and intend on voting for her. What confuses me is lefties/liberals/progressives that now call her a war monger etc... these are the very same people that defended her when she was first lady - then US Senator - then as Secretary of State. But now she's evil and we'll all have to HOLD OUR NOSES!!!!! when we vote for her. Because she's one of the 'LEAST POPULAR!!!!' Presidential nominees!!!!! according to our informative media.

How in the hell did that happen?

You tell me.

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When did Hillary morph into worse than Cheney/Thatcher/Attila the Hun combined to progressives? (Original Post) tenderfoot Sep 2016 OP
Really!?!?? uponit7771 Sep 2016 #1
yeah really. tenderfoot Sep 2016 #4
FFS Wounded Bear Sep 2016 #2
Who knew? apcalc Sep 2016 #3
Some people get sucked into cults of personality Warpy Sep 2016 #5
Thank you for your thoughtful response... tenderfoot Sep 2016 #6
When the right wing started shit stirring over on the left, and a few people believed the nonsense MADem Sep 2016 #7
It started (on a national scale) marybourg Sep 2016 #8
When she started killing pandas to extract their essence... jberryhill Sep 2016 #9
LOL!!!!!!! MADem Sep 2016 #12
Just bullshit world wide wally Sep 2016 #10
You left out Vlad the Impaler spiderpig Sep 2016 #11

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
5. Some people get sucked into cults of personality
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:14 PM
Sep 2016

and when their cult figure loses, it's a personal affront. They try to hit back by overstating things.

There's not much we can do about such people, prone to zealotry and fanaticism over things sensible people consider trivial.

All we can do is try to outvote them.

I was a Sanders supporter, also. He did exactly what I hoped he would, garner enough of the primary vote to get much of his agenda written into the party platform. Hillary Clinton will get my vote so some of it can get enacted.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
7. When the right wing started shit stirring over on the left, and a few people believed the nonsense
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:17 PM
Sep 2016

they were spouting.

Anyone who says there's "no difference" between the candidates is stupid or trying to run a con in hopes of depressing Dem turnout.

And BS really isn't "a lot more progressive" than HRC. Just wait and see.

marybourg

(12,540 posts)
8. It started (on a national scale)
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:17 PM
Sep 2016

in the Obama/Clinton primary and escalated in the Clinton/Sanders one. Many Sanders partisans were not members of the Democratic party and have no particular loyalty to it. Many were so devoted that the idea of changing loyalties creates more dissonance than they can tolerate. Many are simply young, with the fixed idealism of the young and many get their opinions from their friends/classmates/professors in super-progressive hot houses.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. When she started killing pandas to extract their essence...
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:27 PM
Sep 2016

...in order to treat the otherwise incurable disease that she has.

That's what I've heard some people saying. I don't know.

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