How does this get accomplished? Bernie tried to promote a bunch of pro-worker/pro-labor policies, but clearly that didn't work. I also think all of the "Right Wing populist" stuff is phony and not actually true.

So what is the actual answer?

    • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Honestly Sanders just needed to drop the socialist label.

      Extremely bad take. We should never shy away from coomunist or socialist labels, you're only poisoning the well further. Sanders lost because the entrenched forces of capital agreed to converge on him. He could call himself a "Christian Patriot" and every major news channel would condemn him for his policies. We cannot win by watering down socialism, that is conceding defeat.

    • SoyfaceKillah [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      are you implying that sanders should've run further to the left (as a proper socialist), or that he should've branded himself as something of a "new deal democrat" rather than a "socialist"?