I don’t know how to say it any other way. I don’t want to lose you as friends but I have to be honest, the stink is just getting to much to bear. It really got bad in a recent comment:
I love how the angry Sanders clan is playing the victim card after the fact (Nevada) now. Nothing like stealing a page right out of the Republican playbook!
Sanders is burning down the party on the way out the door even though he lost the primary a loooong time ago. And his revolution members cult of personality movement is right there with him.
Viva Trump! AmIright?
To which I replied:
“Viva Trump! AmIright?” Fuck no. You are so wrong. And so are those that rec’ed your comment.
“Trump is trying in a number of ways I think to tap into some of my support. If I lose the nomination, he will not get that support. If I lose the nomination, and we’re here to do everything we can to win it, I will do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump is not elected President Of The United States.”
I love, no I hate how the angry Hillary clan is trying to destroy a friend. A friend tells you when you are addicted to corporate money, the addict responds with anger. No I don’t hate, I love, the friends that told me the truth after I hated them for doing so.
From the other side… The pain, anger and frustration of a friend watching a friend suck on the bottle of corporate & oligarch campaign $$$$$ for short term pleasure while they and their other real friends suffer in empathy for them is something I’ve since learned.
I see the politics of personal destruction attacking Bernie for holding the mirror of truth up to “our team”, to “my party”, to “our tribe”. I see the addict fight for their last hit as their friends cry for them.
People who don’t care keep quite. People who care tell you the truth when you don’t want to hear it.
Bernie is the best friend my democratic party has had in a long time. It may hurt for now, later we will all be saying thanks for being there when we needed a real friend.
Bernie was the Dems best friend for decades, never part of the family until his recent adoption. Bernie is not trying to burn down the party, he is attempting an intervention before it dies of its own addictions. Bernie is a friend that is in such pain that he is willing to hurt your feelings and lose your friendship forever to point out that you have a serious problem. My reply to another recent “comment”:
“You also follow the trait of every Bernie supporter of blaming what Republicans have caused on supposedly indistinguishable Democrats.”
You say that like it is completely untrue, it almost feels as if it was intended to insult.
”If you don't understand the problem, you can't come up with the right answer. “ Now that is true but, IMO, it is you and many Hillary supporters who don’t understand that the problem is the very system that Hillary is part of that is the problem.
We all know how the system works, money in and we get:
In 2008-2009 when dems had full control of the both houses and the white house We the People preferred a public option for inclusion in the ACA by +20%, 57 to 38%. and a yuuuge 86% of democrats supported the inclusion.
Did we get it, of course not the Insurance Industry was represented not us.
This is the system that that is the problem. This is the system that both dems and republicans participate in. It is the forest and our politicians on both sides are the trees. Do you see the forest through the trees? Apparently not.
Do you see how Hillary and her supporters have undermined our fight against Citizens United?
Take a step back and look at the totally corrupt system, see the forest, see the real problem. Until you do and join the fight to change it you are part of the problem just as I was.
I really do mean this in the best way possible. Your stench is becoming intolerable. One last reply to another comment:
Telling a friend the hard truths is the most honest and the hardest demonstration of caring and friendship there is.
It hurts being told you have intolerable body odor, it hurts to do the telling. The pain is a thousandfold worse when friends turn away because they can no longer stand the stink.
Please, understand we only want to help.