Ratfucking Bernie was the result of the DNC's (short-sighted) calculus: go after white, older, and well-off suburban voters and give the finger to the young voters (of all races) and Hispanic voters that the party will desperately need in the future, on the assumption that they will still vote for Biden because where else are they gonna go. That's a big reason I'm voting for Howie Hawkins, to show the DNC they can't just take our votes for granted and not pay a price.
It's such a dumb strategy too. All it does is MAYBE give them a slightly better chance at winning the white house in 2020 (still a coin flip at best) at the cost of alienating the future of the party. Even the Biden voters I know under 40 IRL, god they could not be less enthused and they certainly are much more cynical about the Democratic party, and that's not going away after 2020.
Ratfucking Bernie was the result of the DNC's (short-sighted) calculus: go after white, older, and well-off suburban voters and give the finger to the young voters (of all races) and Hispanic voters that the party will desperately need in the future, on the assumption that they will still vote for Biden because where else are they gonna go. That's a big reason I'm voting for Howie Hawkins, to show the DNC they can't just take our votes for granted and not pay a price.
It's such a dumb strategy too. All it does is MAYBE give them a slightly better chance at winning the white house in 2020 (still a coin flip at best) at the cost of alienating the future of the party. Even the Biden voters I know under 40 IRL, god they could not be less enthused and they certainly are much more cynical about the Democratic party, and that's not going away after 2020.