I certainly agree that Clinton was the weaker candidate - I supported Sanders in the primaries. And I'll also agree that the way she was basically just handed the nomination by the DNC was genuinely insulting.

It still seems to me that if you actually supported Bernie's policies you would've voted for Hillary in the general election.

Yeah, Trump visited the Rust Belt and talked a lot about making America great again... While Clinton just harped on how unfit he was... But if you've paid any attention to Washington over the last 8 years, or if you bothered to look up any voting records, or if you actually read anything about the candidates' actual platforms; you would have seen that the Republican party has a pretty shitty track record.

Personally, I voted for Hillary Clinton because she offered something like 50%-75% of the policies that Bernie Sanders did... While Donald Trump offered basically none of those policies.

And, again, it seems that if you were voting based on policy - and not just personality or the fun of being part of a movement - Bernie supporters would have gone for Hillary.

I really feel like a lot of people thought this election was "safe" and they could vote (or not) without consequence. All the polls and projections showed Clinton easily beating Trump. The media seemed to think it was a foregone conclusion, and never really took Trump seriously.

If you actually showed up an voted your conscience, that's fine. I don't care if you voted for Clinton or Johnson or Trump or Stein. You vote for the person you think is best suited to run the country. My candidate got beat, and that's how democracy works sometimes.

But I really think there are a lot of people who didn't do that. People who didn't vote at all, or didn't vote for the candidate they thought was best suited to run the country... And they just kind of assumed that everyone else would make sure things turned out the way they wanted. And that's not how democracy works, ever. That's how things fall apart.