Progressives actually had a huge showing in the 2020 primaries. That's why Bernie won all almost all of the states leading up to Super Tuesday. But wouldn't you know it, something AMAZING happened and ALL of the moderate Democrats dropped out of the race within a single 24 hour span and every single one of them endorsed Joe Biden as they dropped out. BUT another progressive candidate, Elizabeth Warren "decided" to stay in the race when everyone else was dropping out and she hadn't won a single fucking contest. So the progressive vote was split between two candidates (heavily favoring Bernie), but ultimately giving Biden a number of victories on Super Tuesday thereby changing the entire outlook of the rest of the primary in favor of Biden.
But if you look at those vote counts, progressives ABSOLUTELY showed up, but the Spoiler Effect is very real. And it seems the DNC was up to their old tricks trying to shove a candidate down our throats that we didn't want.
Also, don't try to side-step the bullshit of this year's primaries by acting like we got our choice back in 2020 because Biden & Harris were both in THOSE primaries. You know damn well that people were calling for an actual primary in THIS election, they were ignored, Biden became the candidate, and that obviously went completely perfectly. Then we had a fair amount of anxiety about what would happen, and the DNC just got to ordain another candidate of their choosing.
I sincerely hope it works out for us, but the DNC won't have anyone to blame but themselves. Just kidding, they'll definitely blame progressives if they lose again. They always will.
Progressives actually had a huge showing in the 2020 primaries. That's why Bernie won all almost all of the states leading up to Super Tuesday. But wouldn't you know it, something AMAZING happened and ALL of the moderate Democrats dropped out of the race within a single 24 hour span and every single one of them endorsed Joe Biden as they dropped out. BUT another progressive candidate, Elizabeth Warren "decided" to stay in the race when everyone else was dropping out and she hadn't won a single fucking contest. So the progressive vote was split between two candidates (heavily favoring Bernie), but ultimately giving Biden a number of victories on Super Tuesday thereby changing the entire outlook of the rest of the primary in favor of Biden.
But if you look at those vote counts, progressives ABSOLUTELY showed up, but the Spoiler Effect is very real. And it seems the DNC was up to their old tricks trying to shove a candidate down our throats that we didn't want.
Also, don't try to side-step the bullshit of this year's primaries by acting like we got our choice back in 2020 because Biden & Harris were both in THOSE primaries. You know damn well that people were calling for an actual primary in THIS election, they were ignored, Biden became the candidate, and that obviously went completely perfectly. Then we had a fair amount of anxiety about what would happen, and the DNC just got to ordain another candidate of their choosing.
I sincerely hope it works out for us, but the DNC won't have anyone to blame but themselves. Just kidding, they'll definitely blame progressives if they lose again. They always will.