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When Biden sided with the railroads I lost the last shred of hope I had for the party.
Mines been gone ever since what they did to fuck over Bernie from receiving the nomination.
Yeah, both the DNC, and Elizabeth Warren did this.
Warren was, is, and continues to be a very useful idiot for neoliberalism.
I can't even blame her, strictly speaking. It's just that her dog Bailey has all the cents.
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Context for anyone unfamiliar: https://www.wired.com/story/elizabeth-warren-snakes-meme/
I still can't believe I believed in her. What a fucking joke that woman is.
How was Elizabeth Warren involved? I thought the dnc head Debbie washerman Schultz was the one to blame.
She helped fuck over Bernie in 2020 after everyone but Biden, and Bernie dropped out to help split the progressive vote
I wasn't a fan myself. I resented the hell out of him for entering the race in 2020 and outing Bernie. I don't like to talk about it much because it makes me seem like a Bernie bro but as far as I'm concerned the democratic establishment did everything they could to keep a socialist out of the whitehouse. The entire primary was political theater to dilute the socialist agenda and Biden only entered the race when it was clear that, even with his base split between him and warren, nothing was going to stop Sanders.
BUT, as someone who spent time in the trade unions I swallowed my pride and voted for Biden. I didn't expect much, but I did expect a damn democrat to do what they always say they would do and support the union block.
2020 was the moment. It was the last time I actually thought we could turn things around. Ever since that primary I've just been waiting for us to go the way of the USSR.
What did they do? Run against him in primaries and let people vote for the other person?
Super delegates come to mind. They mostly sided with Hillary. Without the Superdelegates, Bernie was never far behind Hillary in terms of delegates. And since the media reported the super delegates who had at this point only pledged to vote for Hillary as if they were obligated to vote for her as if they were normal delegates, this probably demoralized Bernie voters.
They rigged the primary for Hillary, an action they were later forced to admit to and defend in court.
They also let Hillary seize campaign funds from down ballot races and screwed over half of their own candidates. It was ironically called the Clinton Victory Fund.
Fuck 'centrists'. They're all fascists too.
It's crazy they couldn't see the excitement Bernie was creating. The only one who was excited for Hillary was Hillary.
They certainly could see the excitement Bernie was creating and it scared them because it was a threat to their self-serving agenda.
I hate that the entire political apparatus in the US hinges on a few assholes' egos, but it's what we're stuck with
Few assholes' egos... and hundreds of millions of voters who support them.
No.
A hundred million people given nothing but a false choice.
They had Bernie, and about 17 candidates who weren't trump. Guess who won...
And the millions of people who voted for her...
Way to create alliances and building bridges.
There's no alliance to be made with the party that's decided it serves the enemy.
Wall Street is the enemy. No party that takes corporate donations at all can claim not to be serving the enemy.
I'm sure that will defeat the next trump.
Enjoy.
People advocating for doing the exact same thing that made Trump viable as a candidate to begin with don't get to use Trump as a cudgel. Fuck all the way off with that nonsense.
I'm sure calling centrists "fascists" will work splendidly. Enjoy, I'll be over here, having universal Healthcare and parental leave.
So even without the superdelegates, Hillary was winning?
I've already outlined how the superdelegates could have given Hillary an advantage in winning regular primaries.
Yes, while admitting she was ahead anyway...
She wouldn't have been ahead without the superdelegates demoralizing the Bernie supporters.
And of course you have proof of this, other than "trust me bro, the ref is to blame"?
I've shown that she had a significant unfair advantage. Proving that she'd have won if things were fair is on you.
Not really, I'm not the one complaining, not into proving a negative. She won fair and square, if you don't like prove it was manipulated and it altered the result. Burden of proof, and all that.
The notion of "superdelegates" is inherently anathema to democracy. Every vote counts equal. Introducing a class of people whose votes are worth more than others inherently corrupts the process. Since the superdelegates overwhelmingly supported Hillary, they gave her an unfair advantage.
Hillary won against Bernie because the deck was stacked in her favor. Of course, she didn't have any sort of unfair advantage in the presidential election, where she proceeded to lose against Trump, of all people. Because she couldn't rig that contest.
Anything other than direct vote is then invalid, since delegates, representatives, senators, are all contrary to what you want...
PS: Hillary won against Bernie and the deck was stacked in her favor. Not because.
I remember that. I never liked him (but voted for him over the pedophile rapist, Donald Trump), but at that point I really started to think he was an actual piece of shit.
For me it was "I'm an unapologetic Zionist"
Same, that was about when I started emotionally preparing for 4 more years of Trump.
IMHO it was clear Trump would win 2024 when Biden was nominated in 2020. America demands change and corporate centrists will just enrage them more.
Yup. Trump won because of his bluntness, as well as his ability to successfully lie to very stupid people.
I figured Biden might lose to another Republican, but I underestimated Trump. During the Biden admin, Trump was doing a masterful job of “leading from the opposition.”
At the time, Biden was promising that he wouldn't run a second time, and let the primaries pick his hopeful successor. Unfortunately he went back on that promise
Even if he hadn't run again, his refusal to deal with the real economic problems facing working class whites in flyover states handed them to Trump on a silver platter. "Nothing will fundamentally change" is unacceptable to a farmer losing everything, so they voted to burn it all down.
Because without fail, every ShitLib who espoused "vote for Biden and then we can push him left" was back at brunch before the inauguration.
Took you that long eh?