As a Bernie supporter, I did NOT want this

[Lifelong Protester]

Ok, I was a hold-out, but jeez-o-pete, Trump cannot win, even Bernie says that!

Please know, that all of us who supported Bernie are not like this!

[still_one]

1. MOST Bernie supporters are not like the very few, but vocal at the Convention. I suspect this will

end up a unified party before it is over

[emulatorloo]

2. Kick and Rec

[JI7]

3. real bernie supporters did not want this.

[Stuart G]

4. Most of us..know what you have written.

The great majority..of us want to stop Trump and elect Hillary at all costs..

[nolabear]

11. Oh stop. When a hand is offered by someone who's never hit you it's okay to take it.

We need allies.

[MichiganVote]

17. I am unconvinced that after this display today, self identified Bernie Supporters

are allies. But I will delete out of respect.

[nolabear]

19. Thanks. I appreciate that.

[Maru Kitteh]

22. Please do delete. It's not fair at all to the vast majority of SBS supporters who are voting for HRC

And we need them. Not fair to broad-brush them like that.

ETA - Thanks for deleting!

[MichiganVote]

23. Sorry, just not convinced that is the case today. Something to do with

calls to 'Lock Her Up'.

[Maru Kitteh]

25. Those smegma were not Bernie supporters, they're ass-wipe Greens, nihilists and anarchists

And TRUMP/Putin supporters.

[MichiganVote]

27. Yeah, so I've heard, but there is nothing to prove that really.

[Lifelong Protester]

20. Thank you!

I stood out in the cold in WI to protest, but really, this is not helping us at all.

[riversedge]

31. Hi fellow cheezehead. I have stood and marched in many protests--ice snow, whatever.

[Lifelong Protester]

32. Yep and I am not about to hand this to the Kochs!!

She isn't perfect, but he (Drumpf) is a train wreck!

[Lifelong Protester]

13. "Never too late to do the right thing".

[nolabear]

6. And those of us enraged at them are not mad at you.

[NurseJackie]

7. I believe you. Thanks saying that. That means a lot.

(It's a pity that there are several here making "excuses" for that type of behavior. Your post gives me hope, however.)

[wildeyed]

8. We know.

And also, those people who disrupted Cumming's speech just did incalculable damage to Sanders' causes. Any seriousness and bargaining power they brought to the table just got thrown away. That was not smart, tactically.

[Lifelong Protester]

9. Thanks to all the folks that recc'ed this

I even signed back in to follow convention posts.

Bernie has my heart, but Hillary has my vote. Do I think she's perfect? No. But that doesn't mean I can't vote for her.

[MellowDem]

10. 90 percent will vote for her...

Same as in 2008 and Hillary supporters, people forget history in the heat of things

[Cha]

12. Thank you, LP

[Doctor Jack]

14. I think very few Sanders supporters are ok with the tactics at the convention

Even most of that 10% of Sanders supporters that say they will never vote for Hillary likely don't see protests at the convention as a good thing for their movement's future. For most people, it just looks like people that want to disrupt, no matter what. I think few of Sanders supporters just want to tear everything apart and then walk away.

[yuiyoshida]

15. Amen!

[geek tragedy]

16. thanks, we know that most Sanders supporters were decent, well-intentioned

people.

But unfortunately the ones that get themselves on television ....

[Maru Kitteh]

18. THANK YOU! THESE ASSHOLES SHOULD BE EJECTED NOW!

NOW!

[Peacetrain]

21. We know that!!!

85% of Bernie supporters will be voting for Hillary.. the other 15% apparently became delegate

[MFM008]

24. Thats a given OP

These are just malcontents unhappy with everything.
We cant always get what you want,we have to accept it.

[liberal N proud]

26. All it takes is a few bad apples

[sarae]

28. Thank you.

[UMTerp01]

29. I am aware this does not represent the vast majority of Bernie supporters

This is a small but very loud contingent of Bernie or Bust folks. Some aren't even totally bust because I believe some will come around to Clinton but there will for sure be holdouts. But I know this doesn't represent most of Bernie fans who fought the good fight and who aren't thrilled with Clinton but who will vote for her. It does not make me generalize with a broad brush Bernie Sanders or most of his supporters.

[frazzled]

30. My sympathies to you, but next time you vote

please understand that you are not just voting for the candidate, but just as much for his or her delegates. If you were at a caucus, you saw some of these delegates. You also saw their behavior. Maybe you never imagined it would come to this. Maybe you thought the phenomenon of "Bernie Bros" was a myth, or simply a small minority. It was not. When everyone said "I'm voting for the candidate, not his supporters" you were only half right. When you failed to take Sanders to task for not tamping this kind of behavior down at any point during the campaign, you essentially turned your back on the civil compact. When it was repeatedly affirmed by the candidate that this convention would be "contested," even though there was no chance of a real contest, you accepted it without thinking about the repercussions of such stoking.

This did not come out of nowhere. It has been brewing for a year, with promises of "revolution" and acceptance of bullying behavior.

It's really sad, and I know you don't approve of it. But I knew this was bound to come, and I find it hard to accept that there is not blame to be shared for this, beyond a few bad apples. And now our convention is a wreck, and if Donald Trump is not defeated, I will count this among one of the major reasons for that happening.

Again, I'm sorry for you and know you, yourself, are not like this. But I can't get rid of my anger about it.