• minorkeys@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t have a ton of confidence the working class would choose someone who did choose them. Bernie is that candidate, and shenanigans aside from the dem primary, he didn’t swing a landslide.

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      3 months ago

      Most of the US working class still hates and fears the things that benefit them, such as socialist policies and unions. Propoganda dies hard.

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        3 months ago

        No, I’m saying he already chose the working class and it hasn’t galvanized the working class to support him by a significant majority so I’m not sure it would have worked for Kamala. Bernie probably would have won a small majority, but done no better than corporate candidates have because the working class doesn’t seem to galvanized behind a candidate that does choose them.

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          When Bernie was running the entire mass media did like a 24/7 campaign blasting how he “can’t win”… It was non-stop.

          The casual voter didn’t even have a chance to listen to him, he was constantly blasted with nonsense.

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            3 months ago

            I must have been an early ‘out of the cable TV news loop’ person then. Explains some things.

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            People heard him. He had many rallies and participated in primary debates. He also had a book out, did interviews. He had a very repetitive message which is normally good for politicians. Some of his ideas were very out of the norm for the time, some isolationist ideas-- not saying they were not valid but there was an alternative running that fed into people’s prejudices and encouraged them to be hostile and mean- fed their dopamine centers, and said the words “communist” and “socialist” a lot. Also there were a lot of Democrats who wanted to vote for a Democrat, not a “Democrat for convenience.”

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          3 months ago

          He is too old to run for president. Can’t we just stop with the gerontocracy?

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            3 months ago

            No one is suggested Bernie run – they are suggesting the system that knecapped him be examined and anyone involved in it dethroned. at minimum. We cant keep doing this stuff.