I know it was necessary for us to move on from the Bernie moment, and maybe we were too hopeful - Bernie would have been crushed by forces beyond any of us had he actually succeeded, the liberals then declaring "socialism doesn't work" and it'd be another 26 years before the left rose again-but lord I still look back on that period with a certain wistfulness. Call it romantic, utopian, idealist, whatever, they were good months, and honestly the last time I had any hope. Then Bernie fell, and it all fell apart.
That primary and the sabotaged pandemic policies combined cracked my lib programming irretrievably, and I was reading Lenin for the first time when the uprising in Minneapolis broke out
Yeah. This is
erasure. Those were some good months.
I know it was necessary for us to move on from the Bernie moment, and maybe we were too hopeful - Bernie would have been crushed by forces beyond any of us had he actually succeeded, the liberals then declaring "socialism doesn't work" and it'd be another 26 years before the left rose again-but lord I still look back on that period with a certain wistfulness. Call it romantic, utopian, idealist, whatever, they were good months, and honestly the last time I had any hope. Then Bernie fell, and it all fell apart.
That primary and the sabotaged pandemic policies combined cracked my lib programming irretrievably, and I was reading Lenin for the first time when the uprising in Minneapolis broke out