2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I NEVER want to hear another word about BERNIE BROS on DU again [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)If you haven't seen that, you've been willfully blind. Which isn't surprising, since you and most Bernie fans have been blind to political reality this entire primary, and are somehow shocked that he's gotten thoroughly defeated just like everyone knew was going to happen all along.
If your point is that not every Bernie supporter fits the Bernie Bro mold, you're right. But a huge number of them do -- isolated counterexamples don't change that. It's a phenomenon, and everyone outside the Bernie bubble is aware of it (and even some of the more aware people in the Bernie camp realize it exists).
A great example is the "Bernie or Bust" thing. These are people with enough privilege that they can easily survive a Trump administration and 2-3 right-wing justices, and don't care about the millions of Americans who would suffer terribly under that scenario -- all they care about is spiting Hillary and "the system."