2016 Postmortem

I asked a question about clearly contradictory responses: one arguing that we should cater to white male voters and another set of responses showing a willingness to throw away the votes of a group of Jewish American Democrats. The thread in question was not just about Dershowitz but his statement that other Jewish voters would leave the party. That you justify that while saying we should expand the voting base is precisely the hypocrisy my question gets at. His concern was not that Ellison is Muslim but statements regarding the Nation of Islam.

Not only have you deciding merely asking that question amounting to a smear of Bernie (a laughable claim), but now my daring to question that contradiction means I dislike "Emerson." Not only do I like Ellison, I've door knocked and made calls for his reelection campaigns. And I actually know his name! I've been notified that should he become DNC chair, I will be called on to vote on the nomination of his replacement since I'm a MN CD 5 delegate. From my personal point of view, the worst thing about his becoming chair would be that I would lose a very good congressman.
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That you make these assumptions reveals to extent you are bound entirely by the politics of personality. Despite not even knowing Ellison's name, you've decided it is so important he head the DNC that you maliciously and falsely trash Perez in a post elsewhere in this thread.

One of the reasons I dislike Bernie is because of the obsession with him above all else that his supporters demonstrate, as revealed by your reading of my post and blind support for someone whose name you don't even know. I don't subscribe to the great man view of politics. I don't want a monarch or a caudillo. That so many are willing to contort themselves to accommodate Bernie's statements reflects something disturbing about the reverence for a few men in our society. We see it on both sides of the isle, and it scares the shit out of me because it is so profoundly antidemocratic.