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[–] BoiseNTheHood 3 points 0 points 3 points (+3|-3) ago (edited ago)
Any BernieBro who's legitimately offended by people making fun of their fraud of a candidate was never going to cross the aisle for Trump anyway. Easily-offended leftists are not going to vote for someone who triggers them.
I'm not going to play nice with parasites who feel entitled to an even bigger cut of my money. Not when they can't even be counted on to vote at all, they probably won't cross the aisle, and their conduct damages any campaign they're associated with by bringing on negative PR and scaring away moderate voters.
Any BernieBro who's genuinely willing to vote for Trump should suck it up and integrate instead of expecting us to coddle them.
[–] epsilona01 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
If they're a socialist / greedy parasite, then you're right. If they were just supporting him because there was still an alternative to Hitlery on the D ticket, they might be willing to vote for someone on the other side who is also railing (well, still railing) against the corrupt establishment. (I know, i know.. but some people who were D didn't really know why, we need to open their eyes)
I'm just saying that we shouldn't try to antagonize them specifically, as more votes for Trump are good. But if they can't handle the truth about their former savior then that's tough shit.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
There were other alternatives to Hillary at the start of the race. Anyone who gravitated to Bernie over, say, Jim Webb was clearly intent on using the ballot box as their personal ATM and the election as their shopping spree.
[–] AverageAmerica ago
Right... who would want to sway potential voters?
If you really cared about Trump and his anti establishment campaign, you wouldn't go out of the way to antagonize people who had tried to get their own anti establishment candidate across the isle.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Bernie isn't anti-establishment. Leftism is the establishment. And even if we pretend it isn't, he endorsed Hillary.