2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Call it, Skinner. nt [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Well, out in the real world a large majority of Bernie voters, well over 3/4, are liberals or moderate conservatives, and some unspecified number of the remainder are radical left.
Here, Bernie's supporters outnumber Hillary's liberals several times over. Why his liberals are here is obvious. Most were already Democrats and this is Democratic Underground. Why did radicals who despise and resent Democrats, to the point of being known as "anti-Democrats" to political science professionals, come here instead of forming or staying at a forum for radicals? I don't know, but it's very possible that there weren't enough initially to form a "critical mass" for a successful forum.
It is clear that many DU liberals left long ago because of the toxic atmosphere, but very interesting revelations to me were a couple of long old-timers' threads this winter showing that several dozen dropped by before each of the threads addressed to them dropped away; but normally, they obviously read and move on without commenting.