Vote anyways
He’s the face of why ya gotta vote. All the DNC trickery in the world woulda meant nothing if y’all turned out on primary day with the same energy y’all spend on cursing everyone else for doing it and not voting for him.
He coulda won, by a landslide, and he didn’t because he deserved better than his own supporters.
The issue wasn’t that people didn’t show up. There was record turnout for a primary race. The issue was concerns about electability. The talking heads kept repeating incessantly that Biden had the better shot at beating Trump. It was complete bullshit based off polls, but people believed it. Beating Trump was the top priority with policy taking a back seat. The position we are in now is the universe’s sense of irony.
The thing that fucks American elections isn’t our abysmal turnout. It’s the complete lack of civic involvement between elections that makes voters easily malleable by expensive ad campaigns.
The progressive paradox. Progressive ideas and politicians are soooo popular but there’s always a reason they lost and it’s never because progressives don’t turn out.
In many states we did. He took more of Virgina and West Virginia than Hillary did, and their delegates still voted for Hilary at the DNC national convention. This happened in a ton of states before California, the only state that the DNC electors “officially” gave to Bernie, even had their primary. It was so bad that almost 50% of the lifelong Californian Democrats left the party for NPP registration, which is better in California, in my opinion, since No Party Preference allows one to vote in all the primaries, as well as the general.
That bullshit “vote” was, and probably still is, rigged. They won’t let us vote for AOC if she ever runs for president. We need to destroy every political party and force candidates to run on policy and ideals.
Washington understood that direct democratic communism was the best method of choosing leaders, and laws, well before either concept was even available.
See you say all that but when you look at the actual documented results it shows that Bernie got blown out in the popular vote and was actually unduly benefited by the delegate system proportional to how many people actually voted for him.
Stop making excuses, he lost because millenials and zoomers can’t be assed to even turn out at their share of the national population, let alone the easy dominating share they could take within the democratic party.
There were like 30 million ballots cast max in the 2016 primary, that is fucking nothing. The fact that Bernie didn’t landslide with as few as 15 million votes for his opponent is down to the fact that his supporters are loud obnoxious do nothings who have to be dragged by their hair and locked in the booth with no internet connection to even begin considering casting the fucking ballot.
Fuck wanting to vote for someone, fuck wanting to be inspired, fuck your prayers for
the rapturerevolution to come and solve everything for you. Do your duty to those who genuinely cannot protect themselves and cast that boring milquetoast ballot while we fucking have them for you to bitch and moan about it not being exciting enough.America’s most vulnerable can’t afford for you to shirk your responsibility because the party’s manager didn’t deliver enough pizzazz and pandering to your karen ass self.
Goddammit. I’m having flashbacks to the 2020 primaries.
Fuck the low level of civic education in this fucking country.
[gently blows the dust off my ‘Bernie’ sticker]
In all fairness, educated people are far less likely to vote against their own interests.
He would have supported the Palestinian genocide.
He very publicly doesn’t, and has called Bibi’s government racist war criminals.
Why would you assume he would?
No he waited all the way until it was undeniability a genocide before saying anything. This crisis has been brewing for decades.
