The Right is Tearing Itself Apart

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Yeah well Ank has basically called me everything from a traitor to a subhuman monster for daring to support a candidate with slightly different policies than his so we will see how long the left holds together

His descent into paranoia and hyperbole has been difficult to watch.

the left is in pretty bad shape too. So it's more the center that's being torn apart.
Seems we're about ready for a new revolution a la may 68. But to the 'right' now seeing how the 'left' has become more about protecting their privileges rather than progress.

[derspiess]

He has announced he will write Bernie in the general.

Ank's a good man and I think you all should lay off of him for that.

[Valmy]

He has announced he will write Bernie in the general.

Ank's a good man and I think you all should lay off of him for that.

Maybe Oregon will go your way this time.

[Eddie Teach]

He has announced he will write Bernie in the general.

Ank's a good man and I think you all should lay off of him for that.

Can we count on you to vote third party as promised? 

[derspiess]

He has announced he will write Bernie in the general.

Ank's a good man and I think you all should lay off of him for that.

Can we count on you to vote third party as promised? 

I promise... to act as my conscience dictates.

[Razgovory]

He has announced he will write Bernie in the general. We are all evil and corrupt for supporting her apparently. FFS. The Republicans are less unhinged about Hillary than some of these Bernie supporters.

That is really disappointing.  A Bernie Sanders facebook group gets taken down, "OMG HILLARY CLINTON ORDERED THIS!"

[Jacob]

Who is the bedrock of Sanders supporters?  Millenials.  And again, they're in some trouble as well.  Crippling student debt, housing prices make owning a home look unobtainable.

I've seen it claimed that while Sanders has a large share of Millenials, most of them are ready to vote Hillary once she takes the nomination. The "Bernie is awesome and Hillary is evil" contingent apparently skews much older (and still white).

[Barrister]

Who is the bedrock of Sanders supporters?  Millenials.  And again, they're in some trouble as well.  Crippling student debt, housing prices make owning a home look unobtainable.

I've seen it claimed that while Sanders has a large share of Millenials, most of them are ready to vote Hillary once she takes the nomination. The "Bernie is awesome and Hillary is evil" contingent apparently skews much older (and still white).

Could well be.  While most of Sanders support comes from the youngsters, he definitely has brought all the hard-left cranks of any age out of the woodwork as well.

[Jacob]

Could well be.  While most of Sanders support comes from the youngsters, he definitely has brought all the hard-left cranks of any age out of the woodwork as well.

And some strange hard-right ones as well (there's a section of people who are all "Trump or Sanders"). There is a not insignificant number of libertarians and form Ron Paul supporters amongst the Bern crowd too which seems weird on the face of it. Maybe it isn't though, I think there's a hard-contrarian demographic out there, who care more about saying fuck you to the system and kicking the apple cart a bit than about left or right, so as long as the rhetoric sounds like that they're down. That's my guess, anyhow.

[MadImmortalMan]

Bernie and Trump are the outsiders. I imagine the overlap among the fed up crowd is probably not insignificant.

[Jacob]

Bernie and Trump are the outsiders. I imagine the overlap among the fed up crowd is probably not insignificant.

Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.

[Admiral Yi]

[Jacob]

The Outsiders

[crazy canuck]

The main means of communications were dominated by more reasonable and rational discourse. 

No, not really.  There are a number of scares, and ideologies like nazism and fascism that spread without modern means of communications.  It's faster today, because in 1890 it took 3 weeks to get news from London while it takes 3 minutes today, including the time to type it, but the problematic remains the same.

Yes, these extreme ideologies were the exception.  Look at my sig for the rule that used to be in place. 

[Habbaku]

Could well be.  While most of Sanders support comes from the youngsters, he definitely has brought all the hard-left cranks of any age out of the woodwork as well.

And some strange hard-right ones as well (there's a section of people who are all "Trump or Sanders"). There is a not insignificant number of libertarians and form Ron Paul supporters amongst the Bern crowd too which seems weird on the face of it. Maybe it isn't though, I think there's a hard-contrarian demographic out there, who care more about saying fuck you to the system and kicking the apple cart a bit than about left or right, so as long as the rhetoric sounds like that they're down. That's my guess, anyhow.

At least among my social circle, of the former Paul supporters who are now Bernie supporters, it has the most to do with their sharing many positions on foreign policy, defense spending, and corporate welfare.  I guess that could count as 'fuck the system' but I don't see it as that amongst them.