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It's Only One Vote (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by homesweethomeMrL to c/politicalmemes

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[–] FinishingDutch 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I can definitely understand the disillusionment of the Bernie Bros at that time. I was reaaaaally hoping he’d win the nomination.

Even as a European that whole situation really irked me. Especially the rhetoric of it being ‘Hillary’s turn’. Yes, she had a lot of political experience, but this is not an ‘it’s my turn!’ type of position. And Bernie getting shoved aside unceremoniously because it was ‘her turn’ didn’t do the Democrats any favors in the actual voting.

A lot of Bernie supporters had a post-Bernie hangover and got frustrated enough to check out of the political process. It sucks, but I understand. Let’s hope they’ll at least vote this time.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

More Bernie voters voted for Clinton in 2016 than Clinton voters voted for Obama in 2008. They had a whole group called PUMA:

We [were] protesting the 2008 Presidential election because we refuse to support a nominee who was selected by the leadership rather than elected by the voters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I get people who voted for him in the primary being upset.

It's the people that didn't out of sheer laziness or willful incompetence complaining I have no compassion or patience for -- the number of those I knew of was shocking to me. Calling them "morons" is being charitable.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

Man that's a powerful drink they downed that it caused enough of a hangover for them to not even show up to the primary that was supposedly stolen from him.