• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    drowned out and ignored by the majority of Americans

    What planet are you from? He had an unprecedented string of early primary victories and was the clear favorite until an unprecedented fix was called in. If the Tara Reade story or the pandemic hit a month earlier Bernie would have likely be in the White House now.

    Arguing that we should run candidates in a party people take seriously has nothing to do with great man theory, either.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      He had an unprecedented string of early primary victories and was the clear favorite until an unprecedented fix was called in

      Literally the only unprecedented win was Nevada, everything else was expected or a crapshoot, he ate shit hard, he practically had no voter base in large parts of the country, he lost southern black voters to a segregationist and you want to tell me this guy was a harbinger of radical politics, please

      If the Tara Reade story or the pandemic hit a month earlier Bernie would have likely be in the White House now.

      bruh this is some grade A cope shit, if he was the man you claim he was, he would have stuck in there and fought for every state and every delegate, he would have used his base to generate a media blitz around covid and took the primary to the convention. But he didn't because even he knew his movement was cratered, all twitter barks and no grassroot bite

      • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        bernie definitely isn't a radical socialist anymore, but that entire primary was completely rigged.

        no politician has ever won the first three primaries, either republican or democrat, except for bernie sanders. no time in history have the leading candidates all dropped out to endorse a single entity prior to super tuesday.
        the exit polls all somehow differentiate from the expected outcome, and everyone favors joe biden, rather than being split.

        the fix was definitely in. which is just another reason that electoralism is a crapshoot.