Drowning them out was an effective strategy. The last thing the DNC needed was images of people violently tossed from the auditorium. The protest was neutralized.
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Sad. No manners, ill-informed, petulant. One or all three. Yet, Hillary will be fighting for each and every single one of them â and Iâm very okay with that. There are times when Iâm not as well-informed about an issue as I should be, and Iâll say or do something I later regret. I do hope these folks connect the dots. Some might, some wonât, some donât want to.
That said, I hope they didnât let the door smack too hard on the way out.
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Well, thatâs the thing people have been asking about the segment of the far left that thinks symbols are an end rather than a means for about 200 years now.
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Tip of the hat to all the folks who put together and ran the convention â including Debbie Wasserman Schultz. You guys and gals should take a bow. Big round of applause!
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"Bernette Gomez, a delegate from Los Angeles, was among those who walked out of the convention hall in protest. âIt was a fact that the election was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton so that makes it pretty clear,â she told TPM. âI grew up in poverty, I know poverty very well. I know the children of the working class it is clearly a party that doesnât even care about me so why should I be in there?â
Bernette, youâre a fucking moron. Like so many of the remaining dead enders, she hasnât bothered to listen to a damn thing Hillary or anyone else has actually said or done. That anyone could fix their lips to spout such asinine drivel is an embarrassment to our education system.
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I am glad she could take the tape off of her mouth long enough to speak those pearls of wisdom.
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It is sad that Bernette had to grow up in poverty but she now has a poverty of respect and clarity. To walk out is the antithesis of what Clinton way saying - listen and learn. Walking out says more about her than anything. Those chanting shouting delegates were never Democrats and theyâve shamed their states and their candidate.
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Anti-TPP signs were also raised in the hall
She is against TPP.
SMH
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BTW, none of this immature blather form the dead-enders came through on television (CNN). None.
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Yeah, she likely grew up in the Los Angeles region â or at least CA. I lived in CA for a number of years and witnessed poverty as well, but itâs nothing like the poverty of Appalachia. She knows not of what she speaks. She really wants to see poverty? Iâll gladly give her a tour of some of the backroads of the hollows here in the Virginia mountains ⌠where there is not a grocery store or a doctorâs office or a womenâs health clinic or even a fucking pharmacy around for twenty miles. Places literally hollowed out by the corporate/factory flight to overseas. Yeah, thereâs poverty in LA, but thereâs at least public hospitals and womenâs clinics and such, and food kitchens.
I hate comparing different peopleâs bad times, etc., but these damned entitled people make me so angry.
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I was outside in the protest area as a self appointed ambassador to the Bern crowd. In the rain early on it was almost empty. Kind of hard to pull off a revolution if you canât take a little rain but I digress. By primetime there was I would say several hundred, but a very odd assortment of socialists, communists, busters, led if you can say that by the Jill Steiner Greens. I think FLOTUS really took the wind out of their sails on Monday. But the dead enders really were expecting the Bernie delegates to walk out an masse and burn their credentials in the street. Didnât happen thankfully. They marched around shouting about the DNC for a while but all in all it was pretty lame. But as misguided as they were everyone was pretty peaceful and civil, and I was heartened that some of the younger hardcore Bernie kids were willing to engage in serious political discussion and hopefully keep an open mind for November.
And by the way, the Philly cops were as professional a force I have ever seen. I did not see a single negative interaction with protesters. A real counterpoint to Chicago in 68. Our city here showed ourselves really well this week I must say. Many people on all sides said that the people of Philly were really great to them. So donât believe the hype about we Philadelphians. We really are the City of Brotherly Love.
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It didnât come through on MSNBC or the DNC channel either. It just sounded like excited supporters breaking out in âHill-A-Ryâ chants as the counter protesters drowned them out. It actually had the opposite effect of what they were trying to achieve.
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Thanks for this post - I loved it.
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Thanks for your post â much appreciated.
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Yep. Every time they walk away, it makes âthe leftâ less important and less impactful. It empowers the center and the right. They truly donât get it.
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When someone walks out, they no longer have a seat at the table.
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You could barely hear them start up on C-Span every so often and they were pretty quickly quelled. When the crowd started chanting Hillary a couple of times I think they were doing it purposely to drown out the protestors. They had instructions on what to chant to drown out the protesters, I understand.
It worked.
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Quote of the night. Thank you!!
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I second that !!
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So . . . . they want their participation trophy and their asses kissed. Well . . . . call us when you get out of the baby leagues.
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