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In reply to the discussion: THANK YOU BERNIE SANDERS for speaking the blatant truth when so many won't [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and rejection. There are plenty of decent Sanders supporters, but strife just comes with some of the subgroups who've gravitated to him. I do try to be understanding and try to empathize as much as I can with the difficulties of any who may come here.
You can't expect his social conservative faction, for instance, to just support the economic programs they want without taking a swipe at liberals and liberal Democrats (that's me! ).
Then there are his other populists whose reason for existence is hostility against "the Democratic establishment" (by definition everyone who thinks we're rather wonderful even if we have been around for over 225 years and fully intend to keep on doing our thing, so that's me too).
The misogynistic white males among the former probably should be mentioned on their own because I'm female (those shouldn't still resent me now that I no longer take a job they'd want, but I'm still female, so here I be also). And of course his righteous zealots will always be with us under whatever label they're trying out (yeah, I'm a nonbeliever, burn me, babies, burn me!).
I often think it must be hard to be them. And I am totally serious about that.