• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Ummm hi… I enthusiastically supported Bernie in the primary, and then voted for Hillary in the general. Because Bernie lost the primary.

    You may have your anecdotal evidence, but my experience has been the opposite. That the people who complain the most about Bernie losing, are people who did not vote in the Democratic primary.

    The primary is the time for progressives (and young people, who are notorious for not showing up to vote in anything but the general, if they vote at all) to vote for progressive candidates.

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      1 year ago

      The primary is the time for progressives

      Who the fuck is talking about progressives? We’re talking about all the other people who liked Bernie better than Trump, but who otherwise tended to like Republicans better than Biden. Specifically, the people who liked Bernie for his anti-authoritarianism and who held their noses for the leftist stuff. They can’t vote in a Democratic primary because they’re too busy voting in the Republican or maybe even the Libertarian one instead!

      More concretely: they couldn’t vote for Bernie because they were too busy voting for (probably) John Kasich.

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        1 year ago

        the people who liked Bernie for his anti-authoritarianism and who held their noses for the leftist stuff.

        You know… Morons. Privileged assholes.