2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Bernie Support bashing in this forum is disgusting! [View all]BainsBane
(56,261 posts)I don't give a shit who you or anyone else voted for in the primary. What bothers me is that people are taking advantage of the general election to reignite tired conspiracy theories about the primary and insist that the votes of the great majority of Democrats who supported Clinton are irrelevant.
You want to stop the circular firing squad, tell your fellow Berniacs to get over the primary and move the fuck on. Ask them to focus on something that matters, an issue, a principle, something besides his career and making endless excuses for why he lost.
I've supported plenty of losing candidates in primaries. What I never did is start badgering people after the GE about how they should have voted for the person I wanted. It's petty and achieves nothing. Yet it is what is happening now on this site. It is all they care about. It is that kind of crap that reminds people why they disliked Bernie in the first place. I understand they take their cues from their former primary candidate whose response to the Democratic defeat in the GE has been to focus again on himself and how he believes he should have been the nominee, but the fact is voters rejected him decisively. And the votes of the majority do matter, no matter how inconsequential some may think we are.
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