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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by unimpressive on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:50AM (#12929026)
Be careful not to learn the wrong lessons from Bernie Sanders. I supported Bernie because he was old school hard left and largely avoided identity politics and scandal. I'm not frustrated with 'centrist' Democrats as much as I'm frustrated with all the people who pooh-poohed me when I said that Hillary Clinton seemed like a sleazy person who had a deep closet full of skeletons. I was told that these were personality flaws I was supposed to overlook in favor of 'electability' even though I knew full well they were why she's not electable. I'm frustrated with the people who told me I'm a 'Bernie Bro' for having standards, and that my fundamental objection to Hillary is that she's a woman.[0]

Hillary didn't lose because she's a woman, she lost because she's a condescending crook.

- A Washington State alternate for Sanders who voted for Clinton in the general

[0]: In fact I found this latter accusation so offensive that I considered going full rogue and voting Trump.

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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by Fordrus on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:25AM (#12929173)
In response to [0], I believe there are a LOT of folks who actually did precisely that.
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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by Naritai on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:02AM (#12931815)
And those people are exactly the problem. They are willing to throw away the Supreme Court, climate change, and fair immigration all over a perceived personal slight.
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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by oldmanjay on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:51AM (#12932274)
Your lack of imagination is not a compelling explanation of the political motivations of millions of people you want to pretend don't count
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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by Naritai on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:34PM (#12933018)
? OP calls out a specific motivation. The motivation of the subgroup references is very clear. It's you who is trying to expand that to a generalization.
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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by oldmanjay on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:52PM (#12933186)
OP et al assert a particular motivation of a general population, which is hardly not generalizing.
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