Bernie Sanders voters helped Trump become President

[Gore1FL]

239. Bernie didn't split the vote. Instead he campaigned for and endorsed Clinton.

Third party candidates are a joke with mathematically implausible paths to victory. They can only be spoilers. Had Sanders run as a third party, threads like these might be justified. He didn't.

The way presidential elections work in this country is different than the way a parliament elects a prime minister. In a parliamentary system, the election is held and coalitions are created as a result. The design of our electoral college system inherently creates a two-part race. Therefore in our system we build our coalitions before the general election via the party nomination phase. In order to have the voting block we need for a general, we include left voices to participate in an effort to make sure our coalition has the votes to win.

Sure, we can tell people to fuck off over one litmus test or another. If we do, we lose their votes. One need only look at the microcosm that was DU in the general election phase to see why Clinton failed. Or for that matter, in threads like these today.

It's foolish to push away our natural allies. When we do we lose. It's that simple.