• 777 [none/use name]
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    i think bernie would have done exponentially better at the debates but i also think the right would make the current “he’s a radical leftist” redbaiting tactic they’re using on perc biden look like gentle critique

    like a handful of trump ads conflating succdems with “radical marxist antifa extremists” and h would be looking at brainwashed 63 year old ex-fbi neocon posted outside bernie’s house with the heart attack gun. the fact that they’re getting any mileage with this “radical left” angle on oatmeal brained centrist biden is a testament to how fucked the overton window is at this point

    • Renaissance8 [none/use name]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I think Bernie is ironically better suited to deflect that attack, since he can just go into his "if thinking people shouldn't have to go broke for healthcare makes me a socialist" spiel, whereas Biden can only just whine "no I'm not" over and over again

    • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Our country is sooo much more primed for fascism than it is any kind of leftism. I just don’t even want to participate in the American experiment anymore.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 years ago

        Our country is sooo much more primed for fascism than it is any kind of leftism.

        This is why accelerationism is a terrible idea, at least right now.

    • _else [she/her,they/them]
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 years ago

      but sanders likely would have been savvy enough to shift the narrative. and that's what the blues were afraid of. which is why they would rather risk trump2 than even a tiny chance of letting a moderate like sanders win.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
        ·
        4 years ago

        one of them he showed me called Jon Ossoff a radical leftist and a Muslim extremist sympathizer

        the GOP would 100% have been saying Bernie is Stalin and that he wants to genocide the American people

        The takeaway here is that Republicans will call you the devil no matter how far to the right you run.

      • MungBeansAreTerrible [they/them,any]
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        I don't know how effective any of that would actually be, though, outside of their core base that is going to vote Republican anyway. In a Sanders vs Trump scenario, libs could probably be bullied into voting for Sanders with Supreme Court scaremongering alone.