Bernie winning was always predicated on activating working class folks who don't vote and/or have largely given up on thinking anything good can come via politicians and legislation that will improve their lives. That didn't happen, at least not to the degree it needed to happen. I don't blame Bernie for that, and I definitely don't blame the non-voter working class. I guess I take a little bit of comfort knowing that if Bernie just happened to have eeked out a primary win and defeated Trump, without a mass movement behind him he'd probably have 4 years of frustration and not get anything accomplished.
We need to seriously scrutinize the strategy of activating non-voters. Bernie leaned hard into that and the results were not enough to be decisive. So did it work OK, and we can get more out of it going forward? Did it work about as well as it'll ever work, and what we got in 2020 is about all we can expect to get from that approach? Or were the results not worth the investment, and we should lessen our focus on that in the future?
I can't help but think about people who lived through actual wars basically just grill pilling. Maybe they favored one side or the other, but they didn't act on that because they just wanted to get through another day. There are a lot of people like that, and a lot of them are going to stay like that no matter what's presented to them.
Bernie winning was always predicated on activating working class folks who don't vote and/or have largely given up on thinking anything good can come via politicians and legislation that will improve their lives. That didn't happen, at least not to the degree it needed to happen. I don't blame Bernie for that, and I definitely don't blame the non-voter working class. I guess I take a little bit of comfort knowing that if Bernie just happened to have eeked out a primary win and defeated Trump, without a mass movement behind him he'd probably have 4 years of frustration and not get anything accomplished.
We need to seriously scrutinize the strategy of activating non-voters. Bernie leaned hard into that and the results were not enough to be decisive. So did it work OK, and we can get more out of it going forward? Did it work about as well as it'll ever work, and what we got in 2020 is about all we can expect to get from that approach? Or were the results not worth the investment, and we should lessen our focus on that in the future?
I can't help but think about people who lived through actual wars basically just grill pilling. Maybe they favored one side or the other, but they didn't act on that because they just wanted to get through another day. There are a lot of people like that, and a lot of them are going to stay like that no matter what's presented to them.
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Dude they rigged it lol