Young Hillary Clinton Supporters Decry ‘Ideological Purity’

[book_worm]

As in other states, Bernie Sanders is winning younger voters in New York decisively. But Hillary Clinton’s millennial supporters in the Big Apple aren’t willing to concede the fight yet.

Take Edward Delman, a 25-year-old writer and volunteer, who on a recent Monday was wearing black-rimmed glasses and a T-shirt that said “Yas Queen”—a reference to the comedy show Broad City—above a drawing of Clinton. He organized a Millennials for Hillary event at a Brooklyn bar specifically to fight the “narrative that the kids are for Bernie.”

Like other younger Clinton supporters, Delman says he’s troubled by the views of some of his Sanders-supporting peers, who he says are obsessed with “ideological purity.”

“There’s a culture that’s developed where we are assigning moral values to political positions,” he said. “I think they see it as ‘if you haven’t had a spotless record, if you’ve ever changed your mind on anything, you must be tainted

Among the 120 Clinton supporters at Delman’s event at Union Hall in Park Slope, many said that the Democratic primary is particularly lopsided online, where they are often afraid to voice their thoughts. Some said they’d even started a private Facebook group so they could talk openly about their support for Clinton.

“For a young twentysomething who is liberal, there’s a social pressure to uphold that ideological purity,” says Thomas Lawler, a 22-year old recent college grad who works in child care and the arts. “We don’t post articles about Hillary. There’s more social capital to be gained by posting something positive about Bernie.”

http://time.com/4290265/hillary-clinton-millennial-new-york-primary-voters-brooklyn/

While I have no doubt that many young people do support Bernie out of their beliefs I also think that some do it because it's the "in-thing" to do or because their friends do it.

[CrowCityDem]

1. I agree

Purity is not what the Democratic party has been built on. The very idea that we have a big tent, which is what we've been saying as the Republican party shrinks itself, is predicated on accepting that there is more than one answer to every problem. Taking a tone of "a progressive believes ____" is not helpful to anyone.

All 'purity' does is ensure that you can't grow your base of support.

[upaloopa]

2. Bernie's campaign is the bully campaign.

He will remembered as an also ran and his followers as ideologues

In years to come people will ask, "who ran against Hillary in the 2016 primaries?"

[KitSileya]

3. This isn't just happening to young Hillary supporters, though it's more rabid for them IRL

"...the Democratic primary is particularly lopsided online, where they are often afraid to voice their thoughts. Some said they’d even started a private Facebook group so they could talk openly about their support for Clinton."

We need just look at DU, where completely factual pieces on Bernie Sanders have earned Hillary supporters hides, and the stacked juries and alert stalking that sent us on 'vacations' before, and being FFR now. When voicing support for Hillary leads to being told we support the bombing and murder of women and children, and that we are corrupt, stupid, and craven, we stop posting where these fanatics can reach us. And that means that it looks like Hillary has less support - because actual votes, delegates, and states won don't count, of course.