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stinerman@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I’m beginning to think you might be trolling based on your responses. In case I’m wrong…

The simple answer to your question was that people who voted in the Democratic Party primary didn’t want him to be their nominee. Of course you’re asking why.

In 2020, Sanders had the lead and the party leaders decided “guys, we can’t run a Socialist Jew against Donald Trump, so we need to pick a candidate and go with him.” A ton of people vying for the nomination dropped out and endorsed Biden. Their supporters voted according to the endorsements and we ended up getting Joe Biden.

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PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

To be clear the Democratic Party is a private organization and they can do whatever they want. It’s completely within their rights to say “we need to stop Bernie Sanders” and put in action a plan to do just that.

Legally speaking, yes. Ethically, fuck no. If they admitted Bernie into the party so he could run in their primary, they created a huge chain of events that involved thousands of people and millions of dollars. It’s wrong for them to allow such a charade to go on if they have no intention of honoring their own voters.

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- stinerman@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yes, ethically it’s a very bad look. But I’m not a registered Democrat (or anything else) so I don’t have a say in how they run their organization.
  
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