Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party

Re:Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Demo... by thehardsphere on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:02PM (#13896927)

> but I think a lot of folks didn't believe Hillary would enact a progressive policy.

Maybe a lot of liberal folks thought that. I think there were many Trump voters who assumed that she would and they didn't want to see the country go further in that direction, and some of those voters would have preferred staying home to voting for Trump if they thought it wasn't necessary to vote for Trump to stop the country going further left.

This might fall under "lizard-brain" but you can see it in the kind of more-apocalyptic-than-usual rhetoric many people were using, e.g. "this is the Flight 93 election!!!" People saying that sort of crap aren't going to be feeling the Bern.

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Re:Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Demo... by LordKano on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:31PM (#13897725)

I was a reluctant Trump voter. I didn't so much vote for Trump as against Hillary.

I wouldn't have voted for Bernie either but I would have been more likely to follow my initial desire to case a protest vote for a third party candidate.

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