2016 Postmortem

I decided HE simply wouldn't do. Very few of us have strong negative feelings about him, and many of us, perhaps most, do wish his policies were implementable. This isn't about Bernie himself.

It's about SOME, a minority, of his supporters, the ones notably prone to excessively hostile, aggressive, and absolutist behaviors. It's about the ones who, for instance, insist that every time he didn't do well it must have been because of corruption and who in turn wanted to try to overturn the popular vote itself in order to elect him.

A number of articles have been written in major journals specifically about these problem behaviors in some of Bernie's supporters, and they have been mentioned as a problem for Bernie himself in many, many articles about him and his campaign.

In case it didn't come through, although I often admire extreme IDEAS, just like the analysts who wrote those articles I don't like extremist behaviors. I not only despise them, but I think they are often antithetical to democracy itself and we have to be very careful not to give power to those prone to them.

You talk about yourself, JD. I'm not going to go back and examine your posts, but if you're supporting these behaviors you are involved in them. I also posted a psychologist's explanation of how associating with extremists has been found to cause others to fall deeper and deeper down that rabbit hole. Also how groups themselves may become more and more extreme and divorced from reality over time. My good deed for the day (I actually posted the first one a couple of times hoping a fair number of people would read it), and you might want to consider whether it could be true.