I came across this video today and was pretty shocked by how all of the jokes that we were making in February, ("Sure, Bernie is behind... but only if you combine the votes of literally every other centrist candidate") ended up happening exactly as we forejoked. Like, literal Jokerfication.
I haven't seen any good articles or videos explaining just how anti-democratic the 2020 primaries were, and I'd love to read someone else's account of the fuckery.
I still have so, so many friends and relatives that think that Bernie lost the primaries fair and square. This feels like Adam McKay talking about how it's been 2 decades after 9/11 and there hasn't been a single non-propaganda movie released about Iraq, and most of the country is too burned out now to revisit that era. I'm worried that 2024 is going to roll around and everyone is going to pretend like the primaries are (and have always been) democratic and fair.
As i mentioned, this isn't for me (I've long since abandoned electoralism in favor of my local mutual aid group), this is for my friends/fam that are still fully faithful to our electoral system.
These also happen to be people that spend all day consuming mainstream media and immediately distrust anything that isn't 'polished', which tends to be a hurdle for most leftist media that is either under- or self-funded.