I loved Bernie in 2016 and 2020, Bernie and M4A were big reasons I moved leftward, but I'm disappointed by how big of a tankie Bernie has been about Israel. His far left online supporters have infected his brain with fascist ideas like having news coverage unfairly report how many Palestinians have died. I first got hints of his redfash Marxism when he wanted to abandoned the women of Afghanistan by saying the US should end the forever war, but forever war = forever equal rights.
Anybody else taken back by how far left Bernie is on Foreign policy? I'm kinda glad he lost now ngl
As soon as the fix came in for Biden in 2020 there was no winning move. Bernie could have:
It's hard to imagine what concessions he could have extracted from the party, because they knew he had no options but losing big by splitting or losing small by quitting. And of course the fix came in right as Covid hit, so any sort of "fight to the convention" strategy came with a real health risk.
There's a huge contradiction between describing how thoroughly the system is rigged for capital and ripping Bernie because if only he didn't give up he really could have done it. His campaigns still moved millions of people left, which is significant no matter what else the guy did.
He should have split it. A destroyed Democratic Party is necessary to make any progress in this country
You have to convince millions of people that this is necessary before you do it, though.