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In reply to the discussion: To the people who did not vote for HRC & still bragging about it. You are not an ally!. THREAD: [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)I saw the number of such posts diminish from the time of the primaries, to the convention and through the general election. I really did not see that in the last weeks. I DID see people posting that they were voting for HRC reluctantly "holding their nose" and just against Trump. I also did not see people posting that they did not vote for Clinton after DU was restored.
Yes, I know that DU historically also had many people not really identifying as Democrats. Back in DU 2, they were the ones who were mostly in GD; while most of us more mainstream people found GDP. I knew if I wanted to start a thread on anything Senator Kerry was doing to put it in GD P. If I put something about the SFRC in GD, it would sink to the bottom of the page without a single comment and sometimes with few reads. At that time, Kuchinich was easily more respected in GD than Kerry, Clinton, Gore etc.
I think many of those left of Kuchinich people, who I avoided for years, were the ones who fled elsewhere in 2016. Their support of Russia was pretty strange. I suspect that we learned in 2016, that many of these "purists" were NOT Democrats and were never really with us ... just as some PUMA irritants in 2008 were not really for HRC -- just trolls.