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Bernie's loss is seen as a direct result of DWS's committee fuckery by most people on here. Which is not the same as it being true, it just gets a lot more attention.
It's the case that he didn't win enough votes. But I think it was the first time he got such good exposure for a national contest.
Hillary Clinton started with over 500 delegates before even 1 ballot was cast in a primary. And it was widely reported by every news outlet as if she had won some kind of campaign. They failed to mention that those were super delegates, meaning powerful individuals within the party who could cast their own full delegate vote for a candidate. Then she secretly took control of the party's finances and then her friend, who was the DNC chair, arranged for every debate between her and Bernie to be on Sundays late at night when people wouldn't be inclined to watch. They pressured the news outlets to downplay Bernie's victories and over report on Hillary's. Yes, she won the primary by many delegates, but the effort to lock the nomination up for her was a mafia style fix that undermined the entire democratic process.
And in 2020, when Bernie was gaining a great deal of momentum against Sleepy Joe, they used the pandemic to cancel all the remaining primaries and declare him the winner. The DNC doesn't have my support and won't for the foreseeable future. They've made this bed with Trump and we're the ones who are going to have to lie in it. We need a different party. Not the fucking "Green" party either. Cause fuck those neoliberal assholes.