Comment on US Democracy

• pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Except it wasn’t just him and Bernie. It was also Warren, so the progressive vote was spit, while the centrist vote was coordinated around Biden. Nice try though!

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  • Butterpaderp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Biden made more than bernie and warren combined in alot of states. If bernie was meant to be, more people would have voted for him, plain and simple.

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    • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re right, I forgot that Bloomberg was still in and running a campaign entirely designed to block Bernie. Nothing says, “Democracy,” like an oligarch entering an election and using his personal wealth to undermine another candidate, right?

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      • Butterpaderp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Bloomberg was a joke. Can blame it on everything you like, bernie was still never getting presidency in 2020. People picked Biden over him.

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• eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  All these sources of intentional corruption against someone running to improve the lives of all Americans and not just a select few, and you just go “Hmm, but he was losing according to the media that lied to us, so he lost fair and square.”

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  • Butterpaderp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I see how many people didnt vote for him. How is the media lying about that?

    You could argue that media was against him, but the truth is that people in america just aren’t that progressive. I mean hell, look at how terrible the dem turnout was this year compared to last election.

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    • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      • Refuses to cover his campaign ads
      • Refuses to cover his victories
      • Internally leaving him off of nationwide polls when data allow him to be counted (CNN infamous called Sanders “Other Candidate” instead of showing him, but counted Andrew Yang)
      • Slander about him being sexist when he encouraged women to run for office and only started going in 2016 when he asked Warren to run and she declined.
      • Mass media campaign about calling the Jewish senator antisemitic for not being “pro killing children”

      So when the media is against you, people see it as a bad candidate, and don’t vote. Even when he was never a monster, but Trump got more air time saying “Mexicans being rape”.

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    • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Democrats aren’t progressives. Maybe if they were, they wouldn’t lose all the time.

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      • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        “If they just had my opinions (that are unpopular to the US population at large), they would win.”

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