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PeterGM

(71 posts)
20. What HRC supporters don't understand.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:10 PM
Feb 2016

If Hillary ran as a centrist, on the actual issues that she supports and made a case for them (And there are a ton of good arguments for international free trade deals, Campaign Financing, Financial deregulation, harsh sentencing - I chose these because they are the most obvious she has completely flipped on just for this primary), then Bernie Sanders supporters wouldn't be outraged if they lost, because then you lose the war of ideas. However, when you run as Sanders-lite on positions you have NO record of ever supporting and spread misinformation to uninformed voters, that is when people get mad.

Sanders has some questionable things in his record, such as immunity to gun manufacturers and gun shops. But instead of peddling crap, Sanders has owned up to his positions and explained why he supported them.
This is the reason why Clinton's honesty is in the tank, because the internet exists in 2016 (shocker I know) and so does the google. And when you run a 3 second fact check it doesn't look good.
This is why there is the gigantic age gap in supporters: It's people who can Google vs people that can't:
18-45: Sanders, 45-Dead: Clinton.

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