Bernie was Obama 2.0, he was the establishment's best chance of sacrificing a little to save their institutions. They decided those small concessions were too much and scuttled his campaign sealing the end of those institutions.
We're in the formative years of a new world, one that will be defined by constant and persistent violent struggle until either the last human dies or a better world is made.
His loss could end up being a good thing if we can use all that social energy he would have dissapated for something good.
That’s not giving enough credit, Obama didn’t campaign on anything as radical (for septics) as Medicare For All, free college, Green New deal, actually taxing the rich etc
I agree. Not that it matters, but if anything Bernie was an FDR 2.0. The reestablishment of the welfare state (which, compared to the amount of money the capitalist class has really is a small concession) in order to save liberal democracy from fascism/destabilization/socialist-primacy-in-the-remaing-three-quarters-of-the-21st-century (save my people, Xi, I beg you).
Assuming Bernie could've made good on any of his plans.
obama ran on a pretty progressive platform actually, he just didn't deliver like anything he promised. he ran on cutting emissions by 80% by 2050, regulating corporations, public option, raising minimum wage...
Maybe at some point, but not now. He's just one of the few who didn't have their humanity ground to pulp by the machine. He would have listened to the machine if he got into power, maybe putting up resistance and getting us some concessions here and there, but he was never a solution.
Bernie was Obama 2.0, he was the establishment's best chance of sacrificing a little to save their institutions. They decided those small concessions were too much and scuttled his campaign sealing the end of those institutions.
We're in the formative years of a new world, one that will be defined by constant and persistent violent struggle until either the last human dies or a better world is made.
His loss could end up being a good thing if we can use all that social energy he would have dissapated for something good.
That’s not giving enough credit, Obama didn’t campaign on anything as radical (for septics) as Medicare For All, free college, Green New deal, actually taxing the rich etc
I agree. Not that it matters, but if anything Bernie was an FDR 2.0. The reestablishment of the welfare state (which, compared to the amount of money the capitalist class has really is a small concession) in order to save liberal democracy from fascism/destabilization/socialist-primacy-in-the-remaing-three-quarters-of-the-21st-century (save my people, Xi, I beg you).
Assuming Bernie could've made good on any of his plans.
obama ran on a pretty progressive platform actually, he just didn't deliver like anything he promised. he ran on cutting emissions by 80% by 2050, regulating corporations, public option, raising minimum wage...
he just never did any of it.
Hence 2.0 . Pete was the Obama clone, Bernie was the Obama for this era.
Except Obama is a CIA asset, and Bernie is an actual socialist.
Maybe at some point, but not now. He's just one of the few who didn't have their humanity ground to pulp by the machine. He would have listened to the machine if he got into power, maybe putting up resistance and getting us some concessions here and there, but he was never a solution.
That's the energy I can live on.