2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: As a Bernie supporter, I apologize for the crazies among us [View all]drm604
(16,230 posts)I am really getting fed up with some of my fellow supporters. I founded and administered a Bernie meetup group and the man I made my assistant administrator for the group is a Bernie or buster. He's in his 40s so he doesn't have the excuse of youthful idealism.
I've stopped being active or scheduling meetups for the group, but people are STILL joining it! Why would you join a support group for a candidate who is out of the race?
As in your example of people walking away from attempted discussion, they will not brook any attempt at discussion about it, however civil it might be. Instead, they take offense and start going on about how you are trying to usurp their vote and how they will not be shamed or guilted into changing it.
The fact that so many of them are using the same words in the same order, like "usurp" and "shamed or guilted", makes me wonder if they aren't scripted talking points coming from some source like the Russians or the Trump campaign.