Ironic how the same people whining about party unity are the ones who are calling Sanders a 'pathetic slime'. I doubt that'd do much for party unity, now, would it?
But "Hillary4Prison" and "F&ck the corrupt b*tch, BernieOrBust!" are just so beautifully unifying, right?
I will admit that most of the sane Sanders supporters have jumped ship. But judging from what I see on this forum, the hardcore Hillbots are just as bad. Constantly gloating over how Sanders is mathematically eliminated and insulting his supporters, then turning right around and criticizing Berniebots because they 'aren't helping party unity'. At this point, I'd argue that the hardcore Berniebots and the hardcore Hillbots are simply two sides of the same coin.
Sanders supporters have 100x as much vitriol as Clinton supporters, but as soon as they get insulted they clutch their pearls and go "oh how dare you insult me! You might drive me away from the party! Look at me I'm being driven away right now, watch me go, are you paying attention? Hey over here!"
They are also not two sides of the same coin because the Sanders people make things up to get angry about like imaginary voter fraud, while the Clinton people mock Sanders and his band of children for the disgraceful things he actually says and does. At this point he's far worse than even an Anthony Weiner or Rod Blagojevich and I'm sure you didn't complain when everyone piled on those two numbskulls.
Go back to 2014 and if I had told you Hillary had an opponent still in the race after she'd won the nomination, who was insisting on taking the fight to the convention, claiming the nomination was stolen from him and that every election he lost was rigged, saying his strategy was to get Hillary's 500 superdelegates to switch to him, attacking her relentlessly, and lying to his supporters to whip them up into a rage against her, you would probably have assumed that this opponent was just some kooky wingnut or future perennial candidate who got like 2% of the vote and wanted to cause trouble, like a Ron Paul or Alan Keyes or Mike Gravel or Keith Judd type character.
Frankly, Steve, I think you're just refusing to see my point here. Clinton supporters on this forum, and oftentimes posters who are normally good, are, for some reason, getting all worked up and angry at somebody who has no chance at the nomination, instead of focusing all this energy against Trump, who's Clinton's real enemy at this point. Sanders supporters, of course, have the same problem, but they definitely don't have it 100 times worse. I believe that both Sanders and Clinton supporters on this forum have yet to find this neat feature called the ignore button, and they are suffering heavily from that.
As for 'party unity', if the Hillbots actually cared about that, they wouldn't be raging against the Sanders supporters like they are. They're just using it as a meaningless buzzword at this point, an excuse as to why they have this extreme hatred. As for Weiner and Blagojevich, I don't know how anybody who's actually serious can claim that literal corruption is worse than not suspending a campaign, and you're saying this due to an unsubstantiated rumor. At this point, I should really just dismiss your entire post as a bad attempt at trolling, but I won't just yet.
As for your third paragraph, this is simply ridiculous. First off, anybody who hadn't deluded themselves into the 'Clinton is INEVITABLE' mindset knew that she'd at the very least have an opponent. Second off, there is, again, no proof that Sanders will stay in until the convention, as this is an unsubstantiated rumor. I've also never seen Sanders claim that every election that he's lost is rigged. Can you give me a link to him claiming that Mississippi's primary was rigged? What about Georgia? Just saying things doesn't make them true, Steve. I wouldn't say he's relentlessly attacking Clinton either, given that he recently actually entertained the possibility that Clinton would be choosing a running mate. Also, I don't think Sanders is lying to his supporters either; that's simply insanity on their part.
Lastly, let me finish this off by giving you an example. Take a look at Jfern and Landslide Lyndon, the most obvious Berniebot and Hillbot on this board, respectively, if not the worst. They're both obsessed with trying to prove anything negative about their candidate wrong and proving anything negative about the other candidate right. They both use Independent avatars so that they can pretend not to be partisan, despite both likely being lifelong Democrats. Both are known to bring up the other candidate's shortcomings in completely irrelevant situations, and both have been known to create insane theories about other uses just because they don't support their candidate. I have no doubt that those two would be indistinguishable if they both supported the same candidate.
