• fluxion@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I can remember most President/VP tickets, but didn’t even recognize Kaine at all… I must have completely tuned out after she screwed Bernie.

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      3 months ago

      That or you don’t remember him because he’s the human equivalent of white bread with unsalted butter.

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      3 months ago

      She didn’t screw Bernie, she crushed him, as much as I hate to admit it. Believing that Bernie got screwed, rather than beat, is the equivalent of believing trump got screwed, rather than beat.

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        3 months ago

        They were times when he was within 5%, and his campaign also outraised her. My issue is not with the voting, but the numerous instances where the DNC put its thumb on the scale, and utterly disregarded progressives.

        Harris got crushed during the presidential primary, but with the right framing we see how much potential she really has.

        We will never know how much potential Bernie had, and that would be okay if we all felt like he got a fair shot and lost. Thats how you disenfranchise people. But some of that energy is back, and hopefully the DNC doesn’t make the same mistakes.

        Don’t let Trump’s delusions about the election make you forget the clear facts that a “fuck billionaires” tax-the-wealthy candidate is going to be going head to head with real and actual institutionalized obstruction from big money donors.

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          3 months ago

          They were times when he was within 5%, and his campaign also outraised her.

          If we’re talking about right at the beginning when he won NH, sure. But she went on to clean up in the next few primaries and it was a run away from there. It was closer than expected, but it was never much of a race.

          The irony being that the DNC rules actually favored sanders, and he got the most positive coverage in the media. The DNC bad mouthing him was wrong, and giving her debate questions was also wrong and ‘putting their thumb on the he scale.’ But the idea that he got screwed is not the reality. These were minor at best, and he got absolutely destroyed.