If my peer group (read: Facebook) is anything to go by, I am one of the few Millennials/North-westerners who does not like Bernie Sanders.

This isn’t just because he was running for President. I have expressed my disgust for the presidential hopefuls this year. While I despise Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, that did not give me enough incentive to vote for Bernie Sanders.

Especially now that he's finally thrown in the towel and endorsed Clinton. He’s not like Trump, where his personality and grandstanding turned me away, but it’s a collection of smaller factors that made me not “Feel the Bern” (which, by the way, ranks with “Make America Great Again” for stupid political slogans).

Bernie always struck me as the idealist of the trio. I like to style myself an idealist as well, but there comes a point where I need to face reality. Bernie’s ideas for free college and free healthcare are great… his price tag of 60% taxes does not. As a soon-to-be college grad, free education does not help me as I have already spent a significant amount of money on Wabash, and free healthcare is great so long as I don’t die of exposure or starvation due to not having enough money for food and heating (money that would probably be going to fund some dude’s gastric bypass surgery or something). And don’t think that all those taxes are going to be hitting the so-called 1%. They got into that bracket for a reason, and if you start trying to tax them, even more, they will find new loopholes or off-shore accounts to invest their money in, meaning that middle and lower class people like me are the ones who get shafted when taxes come around.

Bernie’s fans didn’t help either. They’re a lot like Trump fans; they think they’re smarter than you and shove their candidate in your face, and if you say one thing negative about their golden boy they’ll all but kill you (though at this stage in the election year I’m having doubts about the “all but”). For months I’ve had to endure post after post about how great Bernie is, how much he’s done for his community and America, how he can cure cancer by speaking and summon birds with a flick of his hand. Not even the Obama-mania I experienced in Germany when he was in Berlin reached this level.

And guess what? All this posturing and promoting did not make me want to vote for Sanders anytime soon. Heck, it got to the point where, given the choice, I would have voted against Sanders out of spite just to shut up his promoters (though if his opponent was Trump, I’d probably have a bit more debate). I usually like to keep my political preference private, though that has not held up in recent years, and the last thing I want is someone beating me over the head with a Political Party Stick to get me to see their way.

And ultimately, what has Sanders’ “revolution” brought about? He lost, quite substantially I might add, and has recently endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. Hillary will of course say some things to try and woo over the Sanders Crowd, and the political wheel will keep on turning until the next blowhard is brought in in 2024. I have seen a few colleges go for free admission (community colleges, mainly), but America’s healthcare system still sucks and quite a few of my fellow students will be up to their necks in debt for the next portion of their lives. Maybe the ideals of Sanders will live on, but with few politicians seriously pushing them it seems like Democratic Socialism will die again in America.

So no, I never "felt the Bern". Sanders was nothing to me but another flash in the political pan, and now all eyes are placed on the two moronic cooks Trump and Clinton as this summer draws to a close.