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"Feel the Bern or Give ‘em Hill, but please, chill out"
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2016/02/10/feel-the-bern-or-give-em-hill-but-please-chill-out/But hear this now, hardcore Sanders zealots: it’s become jarringly evident that many of you are losing perspective, becoming unhinged, veering way too close, in your savage anti-Hillary screeds ... No mere dislike, this. No mere policy disagreement or bantering about who’s the real “progressive.” This is far uglier. It’s mean and it’s low and it’s shameful to see. It’s as though a bunch of devout Bernie fire-breathers have taken a page from the GOP handbook and have decided to brutalize Clinton using the most demeaning, hateful language possible, hurling forth all kinds of specious evidence to dehumanize her, all while pretending it’s in service of elevating and lionizing Bernie.
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But from what I’m seeing, even Hillary’s most impassioned supporters are coming nowhere near the vicious character assassinations and outright hate speech being slung by some of Bernie’s most enraged acolytes. Simply put: Hillary deserves serious critique. She does not deserve crass, wholesale slaughter, from within her own party. It’s divisive and cruel and serves nothing. Leave it to the GOP.
No candidate, no political figure in your lifetime has been more vilified, more hated upon, more systematically demonized, largely by the old white male Republican guard but often by everyday liberals and common sexists, than Hillary Clinton, largely due to her gender, her intelligence, her past, who she married. We have all, to one degree or another, been pre-coded, predisposed to mistrust her, dislike her, doubt her motives.
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Sanders, OTOH, suffers no such entrenched prejudice. He’s a ‘revolutionary’ blank slate. He’s been operating so far in the background, and for so long, he’s never had the pleasure of being hated and demeaned for everything he is and everything he stands for, from his spouse to his clothes, his hair to his ankles, his wrinkles to his tone of voice. In short: He’s never had to endure even a fraction of the systemic misogyny and vicious public dissection Hillary has, for decades, and it’s still going strong.
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The only excuse I can come up for their behavior is that they are young and don't know better.
