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Paul C.'s avatar

I read all of your articles, and am a subscriber -- Love you Luke. This entry has me a bit mystified though.

Disclosure: I like Bernie but would pick Warren if forced to choose. Will be ecstatic if he becomes the next president. (I'll be pulling a slimy, shitty, stinking republican ballot on Tuesday to vote *against* fuckface-in-chief)

I get the outrage about the sudden focus from MSNBC, etc on bashing Bernie, but throughout these above testimonials, there is this strange softness for Russia and a Trump-cultlike disbelief of Russia's well-documented desire to create chaos and disenfranchisement here. You describe it as the "Mueller and Russia shit". Those who believe the Mueller report were "tricked".

What does the Mueller Report have to do with Bernie? Why are those who read it and believe the details revealed within to be extremely ominous -- people like me -- a threat to Bernie’s candidacy?

There are reports around Russian efforts to boost Bernie. Do the Mueller Report’s findings suddenly hit too close to home? Are Bernie supporters ok with foreign help as a means to an end? (Just keep it a secret!) Like MAGAs are?

I don't doubt that some of the family members mentioned here are getting too much mainline centrist millionaire bullshit than is healthy, but the odd dismissiveness of the fact that Putin is not exactly looking out for what's best for America – and is having a successful hand in its current decline -- is unsettling. I see it as making enemies of imperfect friends. I WISH I had a brother that was so awful as to believe the DNC has a clue how to win. Mine has a TRUMP 2020 bumper sticker and believes being poor is a character flaw that is punishable by dying of the flu.

If the "Russia shit" hits too close to home, maybe a candidate's supporters shouldn't be so evengelically unwilling to self-examine.

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Thomas Rhodes's avatar

To the good news: my mom is a hardcore Bernie supporter in SC now. I think a canvasser got her to agree to do calls? Shes also a lifelong Republican and moral majority type of Christian. She just has basic cable though, so no Fox news or MSNBC. I bet that helped.

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