Bullying isn't how you get people to change votes chief. Stay classy.
Agreed. Who is bullying you? OP?
I was referencing this attitude in my post. For the most part, I think the majority of Sanders, Warren, or other candidate supporters have decided that they have to support Joe Biden: Their preferred candidates do (like me, I was a Warren supporter), and they've made the case why it's right to support Biden in the general election, and I think most supporters of those candidates have agreed. It's one of the reasons why we've seen Biden's support continue to grow, he's building a coalition of Democratic voices, taking issues that might have been Warren or Sanders' initially, and looking to work with them. In exchange, those candidates have endorse Biden and are asking their supporters -- like me -- to vote for Joe in November.
But there's been a transition among real die-hard anti-Biden or whatever supporters from ... Every criticism of my position, or every appeal to vote for Biden over Trump, or every appeal to rationality is "bullying" or "Shaming" them, or something. It was common at first, "I won't be shamed into voting for Biden!" and, fine, if you feel like people are shaming you then that's your prerogative to sit out. BUt, it's morphed from "I won't be shamed for sitting out in the election" to "any criticism of my point of view is shaming me" or "any criticism of my anti-biden rhetoric is bullying." It isn't. You're not a victim.
The 100,000+ Americans who have unneccessarily died because of Trump's inaction and harmful response to the COVID-19 outbreak; the 40m+ Americans who have lost their jobs; the individuals who are being murdered by police at the encouragement of Trump ... Those are the victims, those are the people being bullied. The millions of proud American who have to go to food pantries and apply for government assistance because of Trump's mishandling of the Coronavirus... Those are the people who are feeling shame, not me, not us. I don't feel any shame for my preferred candidate in the Democratic primary losing, and I'll feel a lot of pride if I can vote this dangerous narcissist out of office in 150 days. If we want to talk about shame, I'll feel far more shame if I sit out and if I encourage other people to sit out, just because my candidate lost in February, and I enabled Trump's re-election in November.
That would be shame for me.
