Can somebody without bias, please explain why so many people dislike Tulsi?

Bernie supporter and Jill Stein voter from last time here.

You're so fucking off base. We hate this sort of bile because it seems so suspiciously much like people are trying to pull a Bernie Bros 2.0.

She's become the target of Clinton shills. She keeps getting criticized for things which make no rational sense based on her record. She's completely unrecognized for some of her very liberal positions, like support for the environment, opposing regime change wars, perfect LGBTQ record, M4A, guns, etc. She echos true humanitarian points which corporate Democrats so often completely whiff on, yet even though she's sometimes the leading voice attacking Trump on these positions she gets accused of saying nothing about Trump. She gets outright accused of being a Russian plant by a so-called lefty in Clinton, yet people accuse her of being the one sowing discord. She's one of the few people who recognized that Trump voters felt unappreciated and voted for a BSer like Trump because they saw it as buying a gun to stand up against people with guns, so she realized the need to de-escalate and stop with the false representations because a country fundamentally divided against itself won't be able to serve either conservative or liberal policies. Well unless the Democrats want only candidates who are corrupt and don't really serve liberal interests, othering Tulsi is a liability that's going to help keep Trump in office. Apparently the fact that she's stated conclusively that she won't run 3rd party doesn't satisfy people (I'll believe that this suspicion is legitimate when I see it, considering that there's no such thing as "signing off on not running" except for actually not running).

I'm no fan of the DNC but people sometimes talk like they'd rather have Trump as President again than to grow up and recognize that corruption is the real enemy and that if Democrats stand for anything, they should stand up against smearing low-profile candidates who are viewed as establishment outsiders and who bring principles to the party. In a more sane political world, someone of her character would have easily been a rising star in the primary process.

You can make up andy reasons you want for why people hate Tulsi, but those are really just rationalizations which wouldn't hold up if the appropriate MIC-compliant candidate is in the picture.

I got big money that Clinton's recent faceplant will be a full time fox talking point until the election ends. We'll see how y'all feel about that then.

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