Democratic party sidelined Bernie and constantly sabotaged efforts to pass legislative reform that would benefit workers and the people. They were never an opposition party to authoritarian rule, they were part of the corporate regime that sometimes made concessions, and it was only when the constituents threw and absolute shit fit.
Outside of the DNC fuckery around Bernie’s 2016 run, he still didn’t win enough primaries.
Yes, be mad at the DNC for that, but Bernie wasn’t a shoo-in by any stretch - he literally didn’t win enough votes from Democrats in the primaries.
Trump’s whole thing ran off of anti-establishment energy, without even being anti-establishment. Bernie was the real thing, and would have been drawing from the same energy.
He’d have won.
Bernie’s candidacy, and occasionally when AOC speaks up loud enough to make the news, are the only times my right-tilted family and acquaintances have ever seemed impressed by anything of the left.
Yes, Bernie would’ve won. That’s why the Democratic Party blocked him.
I forgot which primary, but conservative democrats formed a coalition where everyone but Biden withdrew, forcing Bernie to split the vote with another progressive candidate .
Wow it’s amazing these powerhouses of national politics pulled out just to screw Bernie over.
I mean Rick Ojeda, sure, he’s always hated Bernie, but Mike Gravel? You’d think he and Bernie would be friends!
That’s called Politics. They all want to win and they all make deals to help themselves at the expense of their opponents.
Bernie could’ve offered Pete and Klob the VP spot or whatever prestigious position they wanted to stay in the race and keep splitting the vote.
But the real issue is that Bernie never solved his problem from '16 which was that he is not popular with black people in the south. It killed him twice.
Most of them are complicit in this. Their opposition is feigned or bought.
Also, robots are stealing our luggage
Everyone is letting murica die with a whimper!
Say this on more mainstream politics communities and get downvoted all the way into the core of the earth.
Liberals have nothing to offer other than vote harder and if that doesn’t work, protest ineffectively and not annoy anyone.
My new favorite useless protest I came across was doing nothing for 10 minutes at 2pm every day. Who the fuck comes up with this shit? Protest that nobody notices and inconveniences no one doesn’t do shit.
We need a stay at home* wildcat general strike. Remember when covid hit and most people were forced to stay home? Let’s do that again but without the threat of covid. Let’s see how the capitalists like that. No working, no shopping, nothing, until they abdicate. And if not, violence. we only have one chance to get this right and we’re running out of time as the technofascists become more powerful everyday.
*stay at home because how will bloodthirsty trump attack protesters if they’re all home? It’s a lot easier to beat the shit out of people gathered in the streets than it is to figure out where everyone involved lives and drag them out of their houses. “Sorry I’m sick with the flu and diarrhea can’t work till musk is deported”
Pelosi and her trades, not only get featured regularly on Unusual Whales, but there’s an entire subreddit following her stock trades. Schumer and Jefferies are of the same cloth. In it for themselves.
The rot goes to the very top.
Three good people, willing to stand up to this admin, is not enough to change the course of the DNC. Frankly I wish they would yeet Jill Stein into fucking space and take the green party. I’d definitely vote for them.
Why would a party owned by tech billionaires try to stop a coup by tech billionaires?
They will burn this country down, before they’d consider doing anything to upset the megadonors.
Which shines a light on the real problem.
In most elections we have a shitty option. And a shittier option.
This is entirely true. The Democrats are silent and have abandoned the people.
I mean, wouldn’t a lot of the corporate democrats gain from a Trump presidency? Just sit back and get those tax cuts. Then they can just retire as the world burns.
They’re not offering any serious opposition because they’re not seriously opposed to it. Sure, they would prefer a neoliberal technocracy, but they’ll settle for plutocracy, especially if it prevents any kind of true democracy from taking hold.
They were always a tool of the corporate authoritarian regime. Never a real opposition party.
