I sorta felt like my vote for Bernie in the primary was a protest vote of sorts. I wouldn't do that in the GE as there's too much at stake, but I assumed Bernie wouldn't win the nomination and still wanted to support his cries for socialized university, $15/hr, single payer, etc.
In hindsight, I should have done more research and been a bit more realistic as I do have a problem with the disingenuity of advocating things like single payer when they are not even remotely possible and a person who is running for president should have proper advisement to know this. I also didn't realize he was anti-nuclear, which is a damn shame on my part for not properly investigating the candidate. I knew about the GMO thing and it did bother me, but that alone wasn't enough to dissuade me completely.
Also fuck Bernie for saying "the south doesn't matter" when a bunch of us went out and voted for him. Like c'mon son how dumb do you have to be to straight up disrespect an entire region of people? Not to mention the racial implications of that statement given the southern democratic electorate