2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)There are two types of Bernie Sanders supporters [View all]
Last edited Mon May 16, 2016, 07:52 AM - Edit history (1)
Regular Dems who strongly prefer his proposals to Hillary's and are excited about Bernie and the chance to move the Dem party in a new direction, but will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee.
Disaffected liberal Dems who are often independents-- they love Bernie's progressivism and the chance to move the Dem party in a new direction. These are the types of people who often complain that both parties are the same, and no amount of arguing can ever convince them otherwise. They were never going to vote for Hillary, they seriously think she is evil. For some reason at least half of my liberal friends on FB are like this. These types of people drive me crazy.
Edited to add:
1) Importantly, I meant the people who say both parties are the same drive me crazy.
2) A third important class of Bernie supporters would be young people who just got involved in politics for the first time.
3) In no way did I mean to disrespect Bernie supporters here. What I was trying to get at was that I thought that a lot of people who support Bernie were not regular Dems and were never going to seriously consider voting for Hillary.
4) I am of the opinion that voting Dem at this point in time, no matter the candidate, is still better than letting any Republican into office.