Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumOther than Bernie Bros and BSers - what other condescending names are we called?
Trying to compile a list.
TIA
retrowire
(10,345 posts)racists
misogynists
women haters
As a woman I especially resent the charge of misogyny and woman hating. As a feminist I also deeply resent being assimilated to the category of "Bernie bros." I want my own pejorative term, but "Bernie sistahs" just doesn't seem to carry the same level of dismissive contempt. I feel left out!
retrowire
(10,345 posts)potone
(1,701 posts)But I am not sure that it is insulting enough. Maybe we could have a poll of male DUers to test it?
retrowire
(10,345 posts)but I don't really feel comfortable with insulting you!
potone
(1,701 posts)You're a good guy!
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Being a Bernie Bro is bad, but, as I understand Clintonite theology, we aren't necessarily going to Hell, the way you are.
Contemplating that difference, now I feel left out.
potone
(1,701 posts)It's really tough, isn't it, to win the prize for the most derogatory description? But don't give up, I am sure if you put your mind to it, you can come up with something equally bad for your sex. After all, we're all in this together!
2banon
(7,321 posts)blm
(113,082 posts)The name-calling on both sides has become silly on steroids.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Bill Clinton said that. They don't need our votes, and they ain't getting it.
jillan
(39,451 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)Dreamers
Unicorns
dchill
(38,516 posts)potone
(1,701 posts)Let's have both: unicorn dreamers.
dchill
(38,516 posts)Groovy!
potone
(1,701 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)They yell out grade school level insults because they have nothing but a corrupt candidate.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)a Clinton fan referred to us as "teenagers" and Bernie as "grumpy grandpa" .
femmedem
(8,204 posts)disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)(and proud) gasp..
LiberalArkie
(15,727 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Not quite a label, but a mouthful
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)ugliness.
Ino
(3,366 posts)"you clowns"
stage left
(2,965 posts)That's one I've seen.
azmom
(5,208 posts)Losers and whiners
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)Well, that's what they called Bernie.
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)Hippies
Millennials (or as Hillary says "the young people"
Dreamers
Bernin4U
(812 posts)sarge43
(28,942 posts)Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)Baobab
(4,667 posts)are true, and fair game for a political campaign, where fitness to lead is at issue. Hillarians seem to have a very thin skin considering that she wants to run the country. She should address the questions instead of hiding entire plicy areas completely. (Like the ultra-controversial global privatization deal, WTO GATS)
Donkees
(31,447 posts)Melurkyoulongtime
(136 posts)ebayfool
(3,411 posts)malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)back in February that implied that Bernie Sanders supporters were like the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution in China.
malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)Yes you read that right,figurative gang rapists. There is in article in The Guardian in which a Clinton supporter caled Sanders supporters gang rapists.
Edit: I am posting the quote just in case people think I am trolling.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/26/clinton-sanders-seattle-washington-democratic-caucus
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)There's "unhinged", which escalated to "more unhinged than usual", or the parlay "weird and unhinged".
Such Sanders supporters can be spotted "at his rallies of low-information political naifs."
If Hillary wins the nomination, those of us who intend to hold our noses and vote for her will, nevertheless, remember these and other gems from your list. I'm thinking about a sig line: "Low-information political naifs for Clinton!"
malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)I will vote for Hillary is she wins the nomination, but after all the insults from her and her supporters she will not get one dime from me, and I will not volunteer for her. We keep hearing about the Bernie Bros, but noting about the constant insults from the Hillary supporters. The media protects them. There is a key difference between Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary supporters I noticed across websites. Bernie Sanders supporters are focused on Hillary Clinton, I rarely notice them attacking Hillary supporters, while Hillary supporters attack Bernie supporters all the time.
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Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)"There's a reason we were fine with such people not voting: because they're terrible human beings." (from this post in the Clinton group, emphasis added)
To be fair to the Clinton supporters, though, one of them did point out what was, to my mind, a fairly obvious reaction to the charge. The subject of the thread was the judicial election in Wisconsin, in which some of the voters in each party's primary voted for a Presidential candidate but skipped that downticket race. The HCG was aflame because, according to exit polls, "only" 85% of the Sanders voters also voted on the judgeship. Kudos to kjones, with hopes that s/he doesn't get blocked from the group for making this observation:
races, and yes, I left some of them blank when I realized I didn't know much...
or anything...about those candidates.
I wonder if an influx of new/young voters did similar, propping up those, "voted
only for the headliner" numbers.
Bingo! Sanders is bringing in many new voters, especially younger ones, to the process. I wish they were all fully aware on all political matters the instant they register. In the real world, of course, the marquee race attracts them, and some of them don't pay attention to other races until subsequent years. Getting them started on that process is still a good thing.
Well, it's a good thing in our eyes. Some Democrats, by contrast, are fine with such people not voting at all. I'm sure Scott Walker agrees with them.
jillan
(39,451 posts)came out to vote for Cruz & Trump did.
It amazes me the lack of critical thinking from some people. And this isn't even hard to understand.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I suspect that Democratic turnout was suppressed partly because of the reiterated insistence from the Clinton camp that Sanders has absolutely no chance, math math math, etc. If the widespread perception is that one party's race is effectively over while the other party still has a real contest going, then it will skew the turnout. Wisconsin should have postponed the judicial election to November.
My vague recollection is that, back in the day when the Voting Rights Act required preclearance for certain things, New York City was denied permission to make such a pairing. The primaries for special elections in a couple of City Council districts couldn't be held on the same day as a city-wide referendum, because turnout in those districts would have been disproportionately high. You're right, this isn't hard to understand.