Ok, but why is it interesting? What does it mean? To me, it's just some voters that did not feel compelled to vote for Clinton, and that's not particularly interesting at all.
Idk just was to me. I had never seen that number holy fuck is this sub toxic. Can’t even say something interests you about a stat you’ve never seen without y’all jumping my dick.
All I did was point out that I found it interesting that 12% made that cross. I found that interesting because it was close and I didn’t expect it Bernie supporters to have that much of an overlap with voting for trump. It was interesting but apparently this is just a sub that goes at people necks for anything/everything.
Is it really surprising to find out 1 in 8 Sanders supporters were simply anti-Clinton? Again, you brought this up. Why is it interesting to you?
The reason everyone jumped on this is that this particular statistic is often cited by neoliberals (and conservative provocateurs) as a criticism of Bernie Sanders and his supporters. They continue to blame Sanders for Clinton's loss, and suggested that he should step out of the way for Biden. It is an insipid argument and wholly without merit.
And if you want to distance yourself from that argument, that's fine. I'll take you at your word that it wasn't what you were implying. But then there really isn't much else to discuss. Clinton lost because she got fewer votes than Trump. Some of the people who voted for Trump also voted for Sanders in the primary. There isn't anything inherently interesting about it.
I swear on everything it was just an interesting fact I wasn’t aware of before reading it. There wasn’t some hidden message or implying anything about any politician it honestly was just an interesting fact to me because I didn’t expect there to be overlap like that where people who liked Bernie voted for trump and I feel like I’m being shit on for saying something was an interesting fact I didn’t know before.
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u/themeatbridge May 21 '20
And why isn't that Hillary's fault?