I doubt I’m going to make any friends over this rant. Likely, it will fall by the wayside because there there are so many more Berners at Daily Kos — but only at Daily Kos. Grow a pair of ovaries. So, here’s another diary telling the Hillary Haters to shut up. Our once great website is going further down the drain, indeed. Why can’t those whiny Berners understand that all the Hillary Clinton hit diaries show that she has already won the Democratic Primary?
I don’t hate Berners. Most of them are accomplished, if a bit naive. They’ve faced a ton of actual hate from the right and it gets old for anybody. Hate is a really strong word. So I’m hoping that the people who hop into any diary that attacks Clinton rather than promoting Sanders will read this and understand something about those of us who are voting for her in the primary. Still with me? OK, that’s about one of you. Good enough.
It is personal. Hillary Clinton is the candidate, Kshama Sawant is not. Let me say that again. Hillary Clinton is the candidate, Kshama Sawant is not. And let me add a little moralizing about how the people who support Clinton are not ethically challenged and inferior to the rectitudinous supporters of Bernie. I’m not angry at anyone who attacks Hillary Clinton over and over again. But really, it’s personal.
And I’m sick and tired of your hubris, too. I’m sick and tired of pointing out that the GOP controls the House and the Senate and 2/3s of the state legislatures (often by huge margins) and 2/3’s of the governorships. Forgive me, but I think the real manure storm will happen if and when the GOP adds the White House to this mix. For 40+ years I have seen the left in the Democratic Party chase after some glowing mirage on a white horse — George McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Jerry Brown, Ralph Nader. The results have been crushingly familiar. Ya know how many states McGovern carried? Ya know how the Gallup political ideology running poll looks over the past 25 years?
Bernie Sanders may be right — but not right now. We do not need a political revolution — not at the cost of GOP control of every branch of the federal government and most of the states. I am not willing to risk a woman’s right to control her body for more banjos. I am not willing to risk healthcare expansion for millions for a pipe dream of single-payer that a GOP Congress will never pass. (Yes, that pesky little Constitution gives such prerogatives to Congress.) I am not willing to risk gains in income for the lowest-paid workers in exchange for a crap-shoot, double-or-nothing.
You like Bernie Sanders? Then argue his merits.
I am sick and tired of the nonstop hit pieces on Hillary Clinton