Seemed to be.
Probably more frustration than anger, but sure.
There were quite a number on the SDMB back in 2016. I don’t remember all the names, I was a @DoggyDunnit who was very proud of their non-vote for HRC. They were not the only one, but the one that I found most memorable. If you want to go back to a specific thread, you can try
They were not the only one in that thread talking poorly of HRC.
I knew a number of people IRL who would say, “I’m not voting for either of them.” When asked why they wouldn’t vote for HRC, they’d bring up right wing talking points about her, or often not even be that specific, just that she’s a nasty woman, or that she’s just riding her husband’s coattails.
Like I said, @What_Exit probably personally did not affect many votes, if any. The attitude that @What_Exit hold absolutely did.
Well, I think that we voted in the primaries, and the candidate that got the most votes in the primaries should be the nominee. Or do you think that that should have been ignored?
I think that it is unreliable. At the time, Bernie was being supported by various actors who were doing their best to tear down HRC. If Bernie had won the nomination, then that machine would have gone after him.
And if you think that we were going to elect a self proclaimed socialist in the general, especially after the smear campaign starts up against him, I think that it is you that lives in a fantasy world.
Okay, so how would you like to tell what voters think? Do you think that we should have them all come out and make some marks on a piece of paper, and then we count up those pieces of paper and determine who the voters want?
If so, that’s exactly what we did, and how we got HRC nominated. If not, then how do you want to nominate candidates going forward? Ignore the actual will of the voters, and instead go based on opinion polls?