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user-inactivated  ·  2724 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DON'T PANIC

Bernie Sanders ran as a socialist, and netted over 12,000,000 votes, according to realclearpolitics. This number is skewed downwards somewhat by the fact that he did better in caucus states.

And according to the NYT page I had open in the background, around 120,000,000 voted in the general. Probably slightly more, because I just added the D and R votes together, but, still.

Is roughly 10% of the electorate socialist? I don't think so, because I know a fair amount of Sanders supporters who are not. I only know a couple who would identify as such.

I'm one of them.

This is the same reason I don't think that all Trump supporters are fascists. Because I know a fair amount of them. A lot of them are people I have respected for years.

Life is more complex than that.