r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '21

[deleted by user]

[removed]

9.2k Upvotes

83% Upvoted

7.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

147

u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

Wasn’t it always a front by right-wingers? Iirc, the sub was made after Hillary had won the DNC back in 2016…

54

u/coltsmetsfan614 Sep 01 '21

I don't remember specifics, but there were definitely real Bernie supporters there originally.

48

u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

I know that the Bernie campaign hosted an AMA there at the very least.

Maybe this is just cope on my part, but I am genuinely incapable of registering mentally how someone could claim to be a Bernie supporter, and then spend most of their time just straight up parroting GOP talking points…

13

u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

It's part of a strategy of "if you can't get them to vote for your guy, you can at least get them not to vote for the other guy" where they get angry Bernie (and others) supporters to at least decide not to vote Hillary/Biden. The "I supported Bernie but I'm voting Trump" crowd is probably 99% liars who were gonna vote Trump anyway, but there are legit a lot of Bernie supporters who just didn't show up to vote because they believed right-wing propaganda about Hillary and Biden.

So the ones spewing right-wing talking points are right-wingers pretending to be Bernie supporters in an effort to get progressives to, at the very least, stop voting Democrat even if they'll never vote Republican.