Sanders Returns: "It's Not Just About Me," Clinton Will Have To Change Her Platform To Earn My Suppo

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208. Not really

I'm sure you think every Sanders poster is sincere and has nothing to do with the campaign whatsoever. I put no store by post count or participation in the lounge or whatever, I've probably made 2 lounge posts in the last 8 years and I can't remember the last time I even read anything in there. Some of us are focused on particular issues or candidates and only come to DU for that. And no, I'm not affiliated with any campaigns, PACs, or whatnot.

One useful life lesson I've learned as I've got older is that trying to strategize based on other people's motivations is a total waste of time. I can't see inside people's heads and my models of why they act one way or the other are unlikely to be well-grounded. It's much more productive to address the substance of what you disagree with than to to start inventing stories about why people act the way they do.

That's why you'll never see me calling out some low-post-count Bernie supporter even though there are plenty of them about; I don't know whether they're motivated by enthusiasm, cynicism, or campaign $ and absent evidence it's as waste of my valuable time to speculate on which it might be.