I’m a Bernie supporter and Outreach and Inclusion Officer for the 7th Congressional District Democratic Farmer Labor Party here in western Minnesota. And I’ve had it up to here with the Bernie Bros and their no smarter sisters unfounded and bigoted attacks on Hillary and other democrats… It’s time to call you out on your bigotry!
I’ve gotten used to the republican sliming of the Clintons for the last quarter century. They accused the Clintons of every crime imaginable, and after a quarter century of this republican witch hunt the Clintons have yet to be charged with as much as a parking offense. What is new is a group of bigot bully boys who have wrapped themselves in the T-shirts and campaign signs of good senator Bernie Sanders and parroted the republicans slimy attacks on Hillary. Seems every day I’m bombarded with Facebook “sharing” by the Bernie Bros of yet another republican slime attack on Hillary.
The latest attack you Bernie Bros were sleazy enough to “share” with me was an attack on our democratic Attorney General Loretta Lynch suggesting collusion in some conspiracy theory or other because she had a chat with Bill Clinton. After a quarter century of failed conspiracy theories that have yet to result in any charges against the Clintons, I suspect you Bernie Bros hatred of the Hillary is your inability to accept that a woman is qualified to be a Senator, Secretary of State, and soon President. And now you’ve doubled down on your bigotry and hatred with an attack on a woman of color who is also one of the best Attorney Generals in our nation’s history, Loretta Lynch.
When republican bigots tried to attack the gay and particularly trans community recently, Loretta Lynch stood by the GLBT community and threw the full weight of the Justice Department into the struggle for equality. After South Dakota tried to ban trans folks from using public restrooms and the City of Sioux Falls refused to protect trans people from discrimination in city employment, Attorney General Lynch’s Justice Department had representatives at Sioux Falls Pride celebration to offer assistance to discrimination victims. Bernie Bros, you picked the wrong Attorney General to drag into your conspiracy theories!
Hatred of women, people of color, gays, and other disadvantaged groups is not a democratic party value. There is no place for prejudice in our democratic party. So Bernie Bros, quit “sharing” and even “liking” the republicans slime attacks on Hillary, Loretta, and other democrats who have risen above discrimination to be leaders of our democratic party and country. Let these sleazy republican attacks die the natural death that lies and innuendo deserve.
And if you can’t display that bit of civility and fairness and persist in assisting the republicans in their slime attacks on our democratic women, people of color, and other disadvantaged groups I’m going to move for your removal from any party office and withdrawal of any endorsement you may hold, and I’m going to request that my fellow democratic party officers do likewise.