So I want to delve into what's actually in the minds of some of the more extreme elements of political fringes, in this case the Bernie bros;
https://twitter.com/BernieOrElse/status/1226668911405543424https://old.reddit.com/user/joinantifathat's one disturbing read. Basically, a "web designer" and "graphic designer" suffers from mental illness / depression and identifies as being a sick person who has his 'healthcare' dominate his entire life, representing a large burden of therapy and prescription drugs just to treat a non-physical ailment. He quits his job so that he'll have no income and qualify for medicaid as an existential choice to live or die- the threat being suicide, not leukemia or heart failure or brain cancer. Can no longer afford his apartment and sleeps on a friends couch, apparently not springing for housing assistance, lives off EBT, does essentially zero work whatsoever or provide any benefit to society beyond "one DJ gig a month for $200", doesn't go out or date, and is now devoted to campaigning for Bernie and launching a website for a petition for democrats to insist they will only vote for Bernie and oppose any other primary candidate in the general election, the true Bernie-or-Bust.
The same person who posted it also identifies as Antifa and has a pretty lengthy post history on reddit, enough that I'm confident the thread isn't a high-quality ruse and troll. I mean, I got a little bit of Poe's Law vibes, but a few months of timestamped similar posts make clear its real. Behind that public Bernie front, that poster has a bunch of comments promoting Antifa riots, threatening Andy Ngo, saying he hopes Trump is assassinated, supporting Chris Dorner, attacking Biden and 'liberals'.
Now I'm not going to pretend for even a minute that this is representative of 90% of Bernie's supporters, but it does seem like one hell of an insight into the dark fringes. Like reading through the ramblings of a klansman or neo-nazi or moorish sovereign citizen or black hebrew israelite, except at least the language is legible in this case. Would I be surprised if within the next couple years this guy is arrested after attempting (and most likely failing) a terrorist attack or serious political violence? Nope. People who exist on the fringes of society, who have nothing to lose, no life, clear mental illness, a proclivity towards violence, hold extreme political beliefs? All the warning signs are there. The only reason I stumbled onto this example was by browsing CTH to see if they're banned yet or not.