primitives discuss the cult of Bernie

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511708823

Oh my.

seabeyond (106,124 posts)    Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:08 PM

The Cult of Bernie: How Blind Adoration Masked One of America's Most Deceitful Presidential Campaign
 
They have wanted to trust him because he seems genuine. Like a happy grandfather who would sit in a rocking chair and would bounce a grandchild on his knee. Both people and Oregon birds have flocked to Bernie Sanders because to them he seems genuine, like somebody who might very well be a member of their own family. His Brooklyn accent has become endearing. His hand gestures amusing. His awkwardly forced smile has simply become part of his well-likeable persona. In short, people have come to trust the Bernie Sanders they see on TV based on nothing more than an inherent desire to like him.

Yet the true Bernie Sanders is proving himself to be one of the most deceitful and dishonest presidential candidates we've ever had.*

And the media is to blame. They needed a horse race and to do that they chose not to vet Bernie Sanders to keep up his likeable image. They embraced him when he appeared on Saturday Night Live. They covered his record-breaking rallies, failing to mention that these rallies took place in college towns with thousands of impressionable first-time voters. They brushed off any missteps by the campaign with an aw-shucks mentality. They created narratives that favored the campaign and adjusted the expectations for each primary or caucus accordingly. They hyped up his wins and downplayed his losses. They gave him softball interview questions on the Sunday morning shows.

They did all this while ignoring the fact that Hillary Clinton has never trailed in the Democratic primary and that she has built up a lead that has been greater than Barack Obama's ever was during the 2008 primary. The media did all this in an effort to protect Bernie Sanders and to present the illusion that he was a viable candidate for president.

But the truth hurts. Bernie Sanders' campaign has been malicious.* Despite promising to run a clean campaign, it has been one of the dirtiest and most deceitful campaigns our country has ever seen.*

The evidence has been right there all along, but our media has been complacent in pretending that it has not been happening. Just look at where the Sanders campaign is now. Sanders constantly attacks Clinton from Wall Street to big banks to her Goldman Sachs transcripts to her campaign contributions. Not a day goes by where Sanders isn't doing the bidding for Karl Rove.

In fact, it's gotten to be such a part of the culture of his campaign that Sanders is now attacking Clinton based on things he thinks might be true. We saw this with his recent claim that Hillary Clinton was "not qualified" to be president, which was based on his errant interpretation of a Washington Post article for which he simply skimmed the headline and nothing more. By this point, practically nothing is off limits.

In fact, Sanders saw how attacks worked well against Hillary Clinton, so he now feels empowered to attack anyone he feels has wronged his campaign. This has started with the Democratic National Committee, the group that provided Sanders with the much-needed media exposure that he claimed was only possible by running as a Democratic candidate for president. Yet Sanders has in no way been a grateful house guest under the DNC's roof.

In addition to refusing to raise money for down-ballot Democratic candidates, Sanders has also chosen to sue the DNC after he had the gall to try and steal voter information from the DNC's online database. Sanders has also constantly whined about the debate schedule going so far as to demand that the DNC not even be part of the upcoming debate in New York City. Sanders has done all this despite the DNC having made his entire campaign possible by providing him with access to media and debates that he wouldn't have had as a third party candidate.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/4/11/how-bernie-sanders-is-running-one-of-the-most-deceitful-campaigns-in-modern-political-history 

*ain't that the truth.

*ain't that the truth.

*ain't that the truth.

It's an enormous thread, miles long.

LexVegas (1,476 posts)    Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:11 PM

2. The most patently dishonest man I have seen run for President.*

*ain't that the truth.

A Bernie bully alerts on the above comment, which during a rare moment of sanity on Skins's island  is upheld 4-3.

William769 (47,255 posts)    Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:26 PM

147. Some people just can't handle it when the truth gets posted.
 
Notice that the hide votes left no explanation. That says it all right there. 

[SVPete]

And The Cult of Bernie differs from The Cult of Obama how?

Even Gold-Digger Kerry and AlGore didn't get their own cults of personality ( ).

[Big Dog]

And The Cult of Bernie differs from The Cult of Obama how?

Even Gold-Digger Kerry and AlGore didn't get their own cults of personality ( ).

Well, ManBearPig has a cult, but it's not a very good one.

Half a dozen smelly hippies living in an old VW van, and posting on DU with pirated wifi.

[USA4ME]

Both the bern-outs and hillbots are cultists. They were all cultists behind Dear Leader in 2008 (except maybe a handful of hillbots who never left her cult). They were all definitely cultists in the 90's with Slick Willie. Libs/progs are cultists. For all their talk of how conservatives are authoritarians, they're the one's who desire a strong central leader who will tell them (and others) what to do. Individualism scares them.

But I do find it funny the whacko writer of the blog believes that the media has been propping the bern up. The media and the DNC are clearly in the back pocket of billary.

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[Zathras]

For any Bern-outs or Hillbots that may be lurking, here's your new candidate theme song....

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0[/youtube]