They wrapped up the primary after like 10 states, making it very clear they would blame all the resulting Covid cases on Bernie if he continued. I never got to fucking vote. It was already "over" by the time it came to New Jersey. The way primaries are organized heavily favors conservative candidates. We run through a whole gauntlet of states which Democrats don't even hold office in and let motherfuckers like James Carville use that as evidence that Americans don't want to "rock the boat" night after night on cable news. Then you have the fucking 16+ candidates, all of whom dropped out at the last second to clear the lane for Biden, while deliberately splitting the vote on the "left." Then the bogus fucking shit about "bernie bro" harassment, the bold faced lie from Warren about his misogyny, Chris Matthews screaming about executions in Central Park, Micheal Bloomberg packing the audience at the debates with people instructed to boo public healthcare.
I don't think the "Bernie would have won" discourse is particularly useful, but don't think for a second this shambolic process in any way indicates what the people want. It is a complete fucking manipulation from start to finish.
There is a reason we don't have national policy referendums.
I would call the American primary system a shit show but that implies it’s shitty by accident and not design. South Carolina was where Bernie’s campaign was murdered. It’s a state where the Democrat voters are particularly conservative and it’s a state the Dems will never win. I’m convinced if the primaries were all on one day nationally Bernie would have one; though this naively assumes we don’t live in a dictatorship of capital, which we do, sooo…
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They wrapped up the primary after like 10 states, making it very clear they would blame all the resulting Covid cases on Bernie if he continued. I never got to fucking vote. It was already "over" by the time it came to New Jersey. The way primaries are organized heavily favors conservative candidates. We run through a whole gauntlet of states which Democrats don't even hold office in and let motherfuckers like James Carville use that as evidence that Americans don't want to "rock the boat" night after night on cable news. Then you have the fucking 16+ candidates, all of whom dropped out at the last second to clear the lane for Biden, while deliberately splitting the vote on the "left." Then the bogus fucking shit about "bernie bro" harassment, the bold faced lie from Warren about his misogyny, Chris Matthews screaming about executions in Central Park, Micheal Bloomberg packing the audience at the debates with people instructed to boo public healthcare.
I don't think the "Bernie would have won" discourse is particularly useful, but don't think for a second this shambolic process in any way indicates what the people want. It is a complete fucking manipulation from start to finish.
There is a reason we don't have national policy referendums.
I would call the American primary system a shit show but that implies it’s shitty by accident and not design. South Carolina was where Bernie’s campaign was murdered. It’s a state where the Democrat voters are particularly conservative and it’s a state the Dems will never win. I’m convinced if the primaries were all on one day nationally Bernie would have one; though this naively assumes we don’t live in a dictatorship of capital, which we do, sooo…