• margaretsnatcher2020 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Bernie turned out to be the most dangerous wolf in sheep's clothing. NOBODY other than this obscure website link saw him coming. Many leftists are still in denial that he's a sheep-dog/grifter/wolf in sheep's clothing/charlatan whatever you wanna call him. I am 100% certain he doesn't give a damn about anyone and he perhaps hasn't for decades. Maybe he cracked after grinding in obscurity for so long maybe he was always evil.

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      4 years ago

      I think he started out pure in the early days of being a mayor. Living-in-a-syrup-shack Bernie is the kind of dirtbag leftist I can look up to. Where I think he failed was in the Senate. Even if he was trying to do the right thing the most he ever represented was a protest vote and social democratic legislation that served a neoliberal party. If a socialist caucus existed I think he could have been a nice voice within that caucus but when it comes to national leadership he strikes me as someone who became institutionalised by 2016. I don't even remember if he got real concessions out of her. If anything really fucked him it would probably be the compounding pressures of that decades within the political machine and being blamed for Clinton's loss. 2020 Bernie came out of the gate denouncing supporters like us who dared to be mean to the party loyalists actively ratfucking him. That was where I immediately doubted his potential even though I should have seen it in 2016.

      • margaretsnatcher2020 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        i disagree, i never miss a jimmy dore video on youtube. he's been vocal about being a 3rd party voter since 2015, then he went to being angry at bernie around 2017 because bernie wouldn't come on his show but bernie did go on other youtube shows (LOL). he didn't start calling bernie a sheep dog until the start of 2020 and he's the one that opened my eyes to bernie and pointed me to this obscure article from 2015: https://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary