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Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates to Challenge Both Parties
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The election is over. Democrats failed spectacularly. Now is the time for criticism and accountability. If not now, when? We're all just supposed to pretend that Harris ran a great campaign? Are you familiar with the concept of learning from failure? I was beating this drum myself before the election—you know, when it actually made sense. Now it just smacks of sticking your fingers in your ears.
Democrats lost because fewer Democratic voters showed up this year. That is a sign of apathy. If we spend the next 4 years sowing more apathy then it won’t matter what we are saying the months leading up to the election because everyone will already be apathetic.
To pretend democrats failed spectacularly is to ignore the billionaires doing things like buying votes to win or Russian bots sowing apathy to Democratic voters to convince them to not vote or vote 3rd party.
I see you’re federated with startrek.website. Ever heard the saying “you can do everything right and still lose”.
Apathy caused Democratic voters to stay home. Continuing to sow more apathy will guarantee we lose the next one, if there is a next one.
Just shut up and never ever criticize the party that only ever moves to the right, or you want the fascists to win!
You will never understand that votes are earned, not demanded.
Democrats: work with Bernie Sanders
You: this is called moving to the right!
Bernie Sanders: Exists
You: This is working with Bernie Sanders!
Bernie Sanders: votes with the Democratic Party You: this is not called working with Bernie Sanders!
Sanders voting with the party is not the party working with Sanders.
I'm done talking to you. All you do is deliberately misrepresent my positions.
Bernie Sanders: votes with Democratic Party because that is what politicians do for work.
You: “Nooooo! This misrepresents my positions!”
Bernie is working with the Democrats. The Democrats are not working with Bernie. Bernie is picking the lesser of the two evils, as he sees it.
The criticism is not that Bernie doesn't work with them, but rather they are not working with him. There is a difference between those two.
Sure there were Russian bots. Of course there was billionaire fuckery. That's been the case every cycle for decades. Do you honestly believe that Democrats lost exclusively because of these things? And furthermore, that nobody should critique their performance or policies, because that constitutes sowing apathy? Weeks after the fucking election? That's the dumbest fucking thing I ever heard.
Harris lost the popular vote by 1.6%. Trump gained more votes than he got in 2020. It was a close race but Trump got all the most important swing states with the most electoral votes. The scales were not tipped very far in Trumps favor.
Saying we should waste our votes on 3rd parties or claiming democrats are the same as the republican fascists is not “critiquing performance or policies”. To even claim that is a bad faith argument.