"I'm better than the Republicans."

If that is the message we have going into the GE we are toast.

We were, and many still are, the party of substance and policy, rather than a mob of angry attack thugs, focused on smear tactics and swift boating. I suppose Hiring people like David the slut shaming smear merchant Brock can corrupt even the way a Democrat's campaign is run, and how it's followers behave. I get angry at times and fight back, but my reasons have to do with the swift-boating tactics and other crap myself and others are constantly assaulted with and nothing more. Perhaps I should be less the "stand up to the bully sort" and more the "patience of Job sort" as Sanders tends to be.

Unfortunately I have always despised bullies and it is practically hard wired in my system to respond to them as I would when they pushed around my less capable of self defense friends in school for reasons of feeling protective of them (I was the honor student that grew up learning to fight in an unforgiving and unkind poor environment that also studied martial arts) my friends were in my advanced classes and were largely nerds that spent more time studying and less time learning self defense. So I became what I became for the reasons I did.


Very disturbing.
Very disheartening.
To see the GOP tactics and bulling.
I apologize for falling for the bait so often and engaging them out of anti-bully conditioning.

I just couldn't stand the absolute fibbery going on lately.

of the more offensive ones, verbally, yet without showing any mercy as I should.

You behave very well, even under these conditions.

I hope it wasn't too late to tell you that I do.

I don't feel I deserve such a sentiment and yet I am proud and touched to hear them (or rather read them I suppose). So rather than use words to reply, such inadequate vessels to convey such complex things as feelings, thoughts or the depth of either.....

Her support has been on a steady decline since she started and it's going down hill faster now.

Bernie's support has been going up the whole time and is rising faster.

Hillary is too unpopular. Only voter suppression will get her more delegates.

while there have been some sketchy actions of her campaign members, (yes attempts at actual fraud), it's not Hillary doing that, it's some of her supporters.

I believe if Hillary wins it will be by vote, and it will be because people don't really know what they are voting for.

And much of the media goes back to being donors to Hillary.

She has the most corrupt campaign I've seen in my life time. Our mass media outlets are all on display here - news papers, radio stations and news channels. Amazing the mass effort to stop a guy who wants to put an end to corruption. The DNC is on display here.
The 1% and it's power is on display here.

I'm not blaming Hillary for the system we have now. She is part of it, not the cause of it. I want to see the system changed so the media cannot do what they are doing now. Like the fair rules we used to have, and no money buying the media.

base prefers her.

Scoreboard.

Also, he's only been competitive overall because he ran up the score in ultra-low turnout caucuses.

And surprised to find out the democratic base does not support her. The new democrats support her, but many many dems are not new dems and are waking up more each day as this campaign progresses to what is at stake.

come to grips with reality when the election results come in tonight.

Trying to do better, thanks post

(I also regret things I post often) You aren't alone. This has been over-the-top contentious, and I thought 2004 was bad.

DNFTEC!

Do
Not
Feed
The
Energy
Creatures!

There have always been Energy Creatures, or ECs, on DU. Some of the names are familiar. I've seen them trolling around since I joined back in 2004. In the context of the primary, they appear as Hillary opponents and Bernie opponents. Instead of being driven by any positive feelings or actions their own candidate might inspire in them, their posting is driven by contempt for "the other guy's candidate." And that contempt is usually expressed as contempt for "the other guy" too. Recognize them for what they are. They are ECs.

ECs sap the hope and confidence we need to bring about change of any kind. They take up time. They suck the life out of things. There is no reasoning because there is no dialog. ECs don't post calls to action. They complain, namecall, and attack.

It's my new mantra. DNFTEC DNFTEC... Do not engage. Do not answer. Do not feed.

It's hard to see a negative -- to see those who refuse to engage in candidate bashing -- but we are out here.

Sometimes in GD-P it's not obvious from an OP title that the post is an EC attack on Bernie or Hillary, but it becomes clear when you click on it. In those instances, I check out the number of views the post got relative to the number of distinct posters who applauded and piled on the attack. When you consider those numbers, it becomes clear that there are a whole lot of people who took one look and said "Nope, not going there." Gives me a little hope that the ECs are a relatively small, albeit very "vocal," contingent here on DU.

... or polls can say right now and is a fact not in dispute.

I know of one "type" of Hillary supporter, and that is about it. And I don't think they are "violent" people. That speaks more than any words typed in response to my post.

are really not in touch with the realities of the modern Democratic party and its members.

Sorry, that is the truth. Her coalition is much more diverse than the Sanders coalition, and it shows in the states she wins--bigger, more diverse.

I suggest you get out more and talk to more people.

I have reached a point where I could not care less if they vote for Trump.