Then why are you positioning him voting for it as a thing he deserves criticism for? What could he have possibly done that would have been okay?

Correct the Record. This was widely reported. It’s even on their own website! How did you miss this?

That you’ll vote for any Democrat at all is exactly why they don’t have to try. It’s why the party’s drifted to the right for decades. They have the committed support of a base that will vote for them regardless of their policy positions.

It’s the “young” qualifier that makes a difference. Sanders energized people under 30 the way Clinton failed to do so (outside of white women living comfortable lives), while narrative spinners in the press dismissed him as a grumpy old white man and his supporters as idealist white manbabies (despite, you know, exit…

There’s a woman in the comments on this very article saying that, so I hope you’ll now be able to bring yourself to stop using that sexist dismissal of those people.

Okay, but would you have criticized him for voting against the renewals of VAWA (anti-women!) and the assault weapons ban (pro-violence!) if he’d voted against it?

If it is, that’s an incredibly immature and dangerous way to run a country that owns more nuclear weapons than everyone else.

Okay, but a pro-Clinton super PAC was actually literally paying people to post on the internet.

You are a bad person.

But if he was never going to win, he never could have received your support in the general election in the first place.

I was more referring to many of the comments than to the post itself.

What kind of leftist would support Clinton? What leftist policies would ever come to pass under a Clinton presidency?

Oh, so you promise to not do something you already don’t do. Great!

I’m not in a position to make that deal. I’ll be interested to see if you stick to it once that happens, though!

I’m well aware that more of Sanders’ supporters say they will support Clinton in the general election than Clinton’s supporters said they would support Obama in the general election this time eight years ago. But did Obama’s supporters mock the actual physical appearances of Clinton’s supporters? Does something stand…

Most people won’t, though. What about the rest?

[Fucking Kinja.]

That’s what I keep saying about people complaining about Bernie Bros and deciding to back Clinton. Good to see we agree!

You’re coming up with new reasons you picked one candidate over the other and that’s great, but for now, I’d like to concentrate on the ones you already mentioned before moving on.

How effective do you figure that constantly making fun of Sanders’ supporters is going to be as a strategy for getting them to want to vote for Clinton by the time the general election comes around?