I think du should welcome people who voted for trump and subsequently woke the fuck up

[Whiskeytide]

70. There are many personalities at play here, and ...

... you have to be tuned into them to understand the DU thought process.

Just about all DUers are - understandably - pissed off at anyone who voted for Trump (it doesn't matter why). There will be little quarter for them on this forum because you can't rationally explain that vote.

Some DUers are especially pissed off at BOBers who voted for Trump - again, understandably - because that aided in the election of Trump. There is a special hatred for them, I think, because their claims to be "progressive" are considered hypocritical, and because they have inflicted pain on people at risk under Trump's policies. They are considered worse than someone who merely voted for Trump out of stupidity because they should have known better.

Some DUers harbor only slightly less hatred for BOBers who voted third-party because they claimed to be progressives but stupidly wasted their vote and indirectly aided Trump. They might still be able to claim progressive bona fides, I guess, but they failed simple game theory reasoning, and that was pretty dumb. Many here don't distinguish between this group and the preceding group, but some do.

And finally, some here are pissed at ANY Bernie supporter - even if they voted for HRC in the GE - because they believe Bernie supporters (actually the Sander's campaign itself) caused the rift in the party that allowed Trump to slip in. These are the posters who can't help but remind you - again and again - that Sanders WAS NOT a democrat, he WAS NEVER a democrat, and that he had no business running in the Dem primary in the first place.

Even though we're not supposed to re-fight the primary, that is all some posters here do. I have seen some very artfully re-fight the primary in a post simultaneously admonishing another poster for re-fighting the primary. I suppose it's still too recent, and it was such a devastating loss. And every shit move by Trump - which of course happens every damn day - just reinforces that resentment. It has been hard for some to let November go and re-focus on what's next.

But time will heal most of the wounds. At least it has in the past. So give it time. If 2018 rolls around and DUers are still typing "FUCK OFF" to anyone who comes here looking for guidance, direction and good advice, ... well, ... at that point we're in much bigger trouble than concerns over the diversity of thought on a message board.
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