2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Unfortunately it's a fact, some voters will not support Clinton if she is Democratic nominee [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)I was also an enthusiastic Dean supporter who voted for Kerry in the GE.
I am currently a Hillary supporter.
Unlike supporters of the candidate as described in this article, I will vote for whoever is the Dem nominee.
Those supporters who will write in a name other than that of the Dem nominee - whoever that nominee may be - will in essence be voting for the GOPer nominee. Period.
If any one of the insane GOPer candidates wins, the USA as a nation will likely be finished because these people do not recognize any legitimate authority other than that in their own mind. Based on their rhetoric, they in essence favor ochlocracy and that is what would be the "rule" of the land under any one of them. That is literally what is at stake here.
So I have little patience with any individual who currently supports any one of the Dem candidates but who says/is "proud" to say - especially here on DU - that they will not vote at all or will write in a name other than the Dem nominee, whoever the nominee is, if that person is not the candidate they currently support. Such people are not true Democrats - hardly "Democratic Socialists" - and never have been or they could not even tolerate the idea of a GOPer winning in 2016. They are more likely Libertarian than anything else.
If they are currently saying such things because of passionate support for their candidate, fine - even though I have little patience with such an attitude. I can understand being passionate about a candidate and likely even said similar things myself during the 2004 primaries because I felt very passionately about Dean's candidacy. I wouldn't have posted such things on DU because I was only a lurker in 2004 so don't bother searching for them; I only signed up "officially" in 2008.
But if those same individuals actually carry through as they say they will - whichever candidate they now support - and the Dem nominee loses because that was a contributing factor, I will consider them no less than traitors.
They won't ever know me, so they could hardly care less, I suppose. But I don't believe that I will be alone in feeling that way.