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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

He got gigafucked by the DNC. What was he supposed to do after he lost the primary?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Openly protest them.

Actively work to undermine the system that hindered him.

Separate from them.

Refuse to endorse their stance when it is diametrically opposed to his beliefs.

There's a lot someone can do when the system they're a part of fails to hold to their or the system's own values, but the one thing you can't do is champion the system without change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

and yet he continues to shill for them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah idk. If you check my comment history you will see this conversation getting played from several angles. Obviously trump is worse than Biden, but Trump being that bad means if we all agree to fall in line then Biden has no incentive to to improve

We could play the slow game and slowly install progressive people and hopefully stuff will be better in 50 years, but with the wealth inequality since Reagan I feel like we've already tried the slow game. It's hard to tell if things are actually improving.

I'm just so sick of watching Bernie be on the right side of history every time. Motherfucker is actually literally batting a thousand

And yet he's not our prez. Shit sucks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is no slow game, people have had the same arguments for over a hundred years. The only way is let them keep losing elections. Either they bend to the will of their constituents or they are replaced by a party that will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but people love to say "if Trump wins democracy is over for good". Idk if I want another four years of that but I do think Biden needs an actual incentive to change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They love to claim Trump is gonna be able to pass all these laws on day one as if hes all powerful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

He's already tried to overthrow the election and had stated he will be a dictator. He will certainly try

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

he'll never be our president if democrats don't change and his biggest way he can help the situation is by giving very public and persistent voice to the criticisms he's levied against biden during his last 2 presidential campaigns

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He did release a video recently criticizing him at the start, but then falling in line after. Biden won the primary and Bernie isn't splitting the vote. It's too late cuz primary is over. Gotta go Biden due to FPTP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

bernie's biggest potential in this situation is calling out biden as an ally on his record and past support as publicly and loudly as he can and still saying that he supports biden.

i plan on voting for biden and i will only blame democrats; not other leftest; if he loses like the polls say that he will.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not lose all credibility endorsing the things he's spoken out against is what he could have done. 'I support Medicare for all, vote for this guy that says he would veto any efforts to enact it'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The system is what it is. Would you rather he tell people to vote trump? The primaries were over. Given FPTP if you vote a third party you either split the vote and lose, or waste a vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Split the vote is liberal myth, we wouldnt vote for your shitty candidates if they were the only ones on the ballot. Democrats and republicans no more represent us than Republicans represent you.