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originally posted by: eluryh22
a reply to: jburg6
Edit to Add: A Bernie supporter voting for Trump out of revenge would be an emotional act, not one based on logic, in my opinion.
originally posted by: eluryh22
a reply to: jburg6
I empathize with Bernie supporters but I understand why they are voting for Hillary (some of them, anyway).
Despite the way the DNC and Hillary railroaded the primary, Hillary's views/policies are still much closer to Bernie's than Trump's.
Edit to Add: A Bernie supporter voting for Trump out of revenge would be an emotional act, not one based on logic, in my opinion.
Not all of us are..
originally posted by: jburg6
This has been bubbling up in me for a while and is and will be the only rant post I make on this election. For those of you that don’t believe the people decide the election, I implore you to suspend your disbelief for a moment while I rant.
Now to my rant. Why in the world are Bernie Sanders supporters going to vote for Hillary, someone who threw him under the bus and colluded with the DNC to ensure Bernie was screwed out of any possible chance? This pi$$es me off to no end!
My god, I voted for Ted Cruz during the Republican primaries. Remember back during the Republican primaries toward the end when the establishment was trying to screw Trump out of the nomination through delegate flip-flopping and contested convention b.s.? I swore that if that happened, I WOULD NOT vote for Cruz in the general election because he would have won the nomination through nefarious means. The establishment wants to give me the middle finger by circumventing the fair winner of the nomination, I will give them the middle finger by voting for Bernie in the general…or simply not voting if Hillary was the democratic nominee.
Now, after everything we have seen with Hillary rigging the democratic nomination, it is clear that Bernie Sanders supporters’ votes didn’t count and didn’t matter! If I was a Democrat supporting Bernie I would be friggin’ ticked off, and would not support the establishment that basically said f you and f your vote you don’t get to decide anything. However, instead of tanking Hillary’s chances which is exactly what I would have done, they appear to be going to the voting booth for her.
Bernie was supposed to be anti-establishment for Democrats. Yet Bernie supporters are doing the exact opposite of voting anti-establishment. If I were a Bernie supporter and I didn’t want Trump to win, I would abstain from voting or vote third party, even if I knew that would mean a Trump presidency. If the shoe were on the other foot, I would have done the same thing had the establishment screwed Trump like Hillary did to Bernie, even though I didn’t initially support Trump.
Please let me be wrong on this. Please let Bernie supporters turn on the establishment in the voting booth. I can’t fathom the level of idiocy of millennials and young people who would think this is ok. Please restore a shred of my faith in young people and I promise I will look at them in a whole new light.
Thank you for letting me say my piece!