What? I’m not doing that here. What are you talking about?

What? Why would he say he opposed bailing out the automakers? He supported it. He voted for a bill to provide a bailout to the auto industry. Clinton was arguing that he didn’t support bailing out the auto industry when he had in fact voted for bailing out the auto industry. He didn’t lie, she did. I do disagree with…

The crime bill wasn’t bad. It was an omnibus bill. Omnibus bills, unless wholly good or wholly bad, are neither good nor bad, as they accomplish a variety of goals.

Sanders voted for an omnibus bill while speaking out against its racist parts while Clinton campaigned for an omnibus bill while speaking out in favour of its racist parts.

You did say that, though. I was actually being generous by cutting that part out because the “guy who actually voted for it” leaves out much more context than it includes. I’ll break this down for you.

You asked “if you’re a Bernie fan how can you ever vote for someone who supported that racist ‘anti-crime’ bill?” Is this not itself a criticism of his vote?

Never? I’ve seen countless people say they would like Sanders but decided they couldn’t side with him because of mean people on the internet. Have you really not heard of this phenomenon?

Ah, a one-issue voter. You know that only a vote for Trump is a vote for Trump, right?

It was absolutely intended for you. If being called those names was ineffective in getting you to vote for Sanders, it doesn’t matter because you never would have been able to vote for him in the general election even if you wanted to.

Maybe you should listen to women!

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.