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Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan
Liks please thanks - not seen anything approaching the racism and violent tone from them myself so kinda intruiged by this
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The big one is the expansion of the executive power. The far left of Sanders' supporters are fed-up and don't want Sanders to play by the rules - they want him to enact policy and legislation from the executive branch by any means necessary. They don't want him to "cave" like Obama, even if it means defaulting on government debt. I see a lot of this on my facebook wall and on reddit. Some won't deny it when you ask them if that's what they want. I assume it's not the majority voice but I'd compare it to the fringe Trump supporters.
Another specific one I saw is taking note of which publications are endorsing Clinton so there can be some retribution during Sanders' presidency, I'm not sure exactly what.
There's also a growing racist element as well within that fringe group. A lot of stuff about how black people are too dumb to vote in the own self-interest, and how educated and underemployed white people need to step up and get to the polls and save us all. I wonder how they can reconcile Sanders' support for policy that would benefit the poor with their hatred of rural poor conservatives, minorities, the un-educated, and anyone else they deem beneath them. Eventually you learn that with these people, the loudest one, their motivation isn't helping anyone, it's just about being right and being superior.
Now that I think about it, maybe those people aren't as bad or as scary and the full-on Nazi sympathizers and overt racists on the Trump side. But the extreme on the Sanders side scares me more because I see more of a chance of it taking off as an acceptable idea.