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Originally Posted by PilotMan
If you follow their group in Reddit, yes, yes they will. They're already throwing their tantrums and screaming about being happy if the party gets fucked over to radicalize more people who will be angry about losing.
So they're ready to let the country get fucked for the next 20-30 years now, just so they can get people to their side after and get power. I mean, that's rather scorched earth, but when your primary opposition outlaw's your party and policies and makes you irrelevant because you couldn't pull your shit together.....I doubt they'll see even that as a loss. Remind of those people who know who always need to feed the drama beast.
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Do people actually know Bernie Sanders supporters in real life or are you just basing it off of a loud minority on REDDIT of all places?
As far as I've seen, this "Bernie Bro" "temper tantrum" business still seems like a straw man fallacy to me. I live in an extremely progressive bubble and have never heard anything resembling the caricatures I read here.
A lot of Bernie supporters are people who would *already* be voting Green or Independent or staying home, but are throwing their support behind a "Democrat" who actually stands for their values instead of one who offends them by assuming they have their vote because they are the "lesser of two evils". It's offensive to think we should be expected to vote for someone who voted for the Iraq War and has been on the wrong side of many issues, which Rainmaker has pointed out.
It says something that the primary "smear" on Bernie right now is that he said positive things about literacy programs in the Castro regime. That's because he's been right on most important issues, that the establishment is grasping at straws to tarnish his name because they know that McCarthyism is still alive and well in America. Also because the electorate is largely ignorant on U.S. policies in the western hemisphere (and elsewhere) that have been willing to support authoritarian regimes as long as those regimes support American corporatism.
Democrats tried a "safe, electable" candidate in 2016 and look how it worked out. Somehow, 4 years later, they still seem to think that the same strategy will work this time "because now the other evil is REALLY bad, and we're so much lesser!" ay ay ay. "Leftists better support the conservative Democrat or they're the reason we lose!" lol
I'll vote Biden in November if I must, but I wouldn't fault anyone who will not. As Rainmaker alluded to, is Biden really less likely to get us into a new war than the current President? I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there.