Get this. When they had the 2016 primary debate in flint, there were no tickets for the public. The entire auditorium was filled with tickets that were given to party insiders. In one of the poorest cities in America. In the heart of the water crisis.
I'm as disappointed in Bernie as the next guy but even watching him react, with pretty lib talking points, to the debate reminds me how much more political awareness and mental acuity he has.
It would have been a very different debate. Wallace would have been far more hostile to Sanders. Trump would have attacked on a different set of issues. There would very likely be a third-party candidate in the race - perhaps even on the stage - doing the Rational Centrist Neoliberal dance in a manner that wasn't garbled into nonsense by senility.
Nevermind the fact that - as the CNN Sanders / Cruz debate established a while back - Bernie isn't a stellar debater. He's got his message. He knows his facts. But he's not the kind of quick wit that can score meme-able moments and "win". He doesn't have a bunch of canned responses to Own The Libs. He doesn't have an army of corporate media flaks behind him to hype whatever he's saying.
Like, I'm sorry, but if Bernie was going to win he'd have won in the primaries. He didn't and for the same reason he wouldn't have won against Trump.
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Liberals could have had a man who yelled over Trump.
But Jewish yelling man is misogyny!!!
Also anti-semetic caricature!!
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Get this. When they had the 2016 primary debate in flint, there were no tickets for the public. The entire auditorium was filled with tickets that were given to party insiders. In one of the poorest cities in America. In the heart of the water crisis.
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Probably the one where it was like $3,000 a ticket IIRC.
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Wasn't that the one where the crowd was, like super pro-Bloomberg?
He payed to pack the audience with his supporters.
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yeah, but which would you rather have; socialism or nazism? the dems gave us their answer loud and fucking clear.
Please use the original ' socialism or barbarism ' instead
I'm as disappointed in Bernie as the next guy but even watching him react, with pretty lib talking points, to the debate reminds me how much more political awareness and mental acuity he has.
It would have been a very different debate. Wallace would have been far more hostile to Sanders. Trump would have attacked on a different set of issues. There would very likely be a third-party candidate in the race - perhaps even on the stage - doing the Rational Centrist Neoliberal dance in a manner that wasn't garbled into nonsense by senility.
Nevermind the fact that - as the CNN Sanders / Cruz debate established a while back - Bernie isn't a stellar debater. He's got his message. He knows his facts. But he's not the kind of quick wit that can score meme-able moments and "win". He doesn't have a bunch of canned responses to Own The Libs. He doesn't have an army of corporate media flaks behind him to hype whatever he's saying.
Like, I'm sorry, but if Bernie was going to win he'd have won in the primaries. He didn't and for the same reason he wouldn't have won against Trump.
Yeah, the attack would have been different. Heck, Trump came out attacking Biden for kneecapping Bernie.