• happybadger [he/him]
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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.