When Hillary lost in 2016 there were a variety of reactions in this nation (and in my subsection of it, my facebook page was especially telling) and most of them sucked.
Yes the left and the right.
Three years later not much has changed.
To me, the worst of the lot has been the kind who joined the #resistance but are trying hard for a return of decorum rather anything substantive. But there's a secondary kind of centrist—who claims that they do want a big change, do agree that Trump is merely a symptom—who also gets my nerves. [2] Here is one such article. Now, on this blog, LGM, there are different subsections of the left and the center, [3] but this post where the author mocks some love for Bernie seems overdone.
The comments that follow are also a little off.
Not that I care for the love for Bernie, it's just that the hate against him also seems quite off and misplaced (almost a case of the person who doth protest too much).
Also it's got nothing to do (when there are comparisons of him vs Warren) with him being an old white guy but rather his methods rely less on plans and more on keeping people on the streets to force the change we need (note Warren, though great, did not get in on the Climate Change town hall).
Again, this is a valid point (and if Warren told by Summers to be less radical is to get things done, she needs a movement behind her). And when geniuses like Keeanga-Yamahtta claim Bernie is good because of this, then they are, in fact right).
Which gets to my point about a lot of spaces for discussion, even on the left. They are made to create outrage and judge rather than analyze and create some sort of movement for the better.
Friends like these... but I'm not both sided this thing. Just saying there are fewer clear thinkers out there than one would like.
[1] Besides the usual suspects of dumb on the right (throwing a plethora of so called complaints and trying to act as if there was some movement outside of hate going on, nevermind that most were/are suckers being taken for all they're worth by grifters, nevermind the ways in which they really try to shoot themselves in the foot... but really, how dumb can you get (full article here)? A grifters paradise is the least of it. This is crab in the bucket mentality taken to some galaxy brain level, except here the crabs tell the man who holds the bucket that he just needs to smash a few more crabs (those other crabs) from outside the bucket, dangle them over their bucket and they'll be fine with this arrangement) there were the center left looking to blame only one subsection of foreigners (Russians) working our elections... note, whatever their interference in our elections (nevermind the voter suppression closer to home and carried out by the GOP), the need to just focus on that and not weigh exactly how much was done by other forms of dark money in our elections etc etc etc.
[2] Not nerves exactly, but just an annoying thing to get over.
[3] Note many will be up in arms about anyone trying to diversify our schools and other real sacrifices needed in this nation (to make it better).
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