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Bernie would have won had he not been blatantly cheated in the 2016 DNC primary. Weβd be in a MUCH different timeline had he won.
Edit: Corbyn was done dirty in the UK too.
The defeatist in me wants to downvote you. The optimist in me also wants to downvote you. The currently aware bit of me reminds me that this isn't reddit, and downvotes aren't a thing here. The rest of me is upst because there's a non-zero chance you're right, and the entire world would be better off.
I find it weird that I support Bernie wholeheartedly, even though I am a Trump supporter (yeah, I can hear them coming)
How. The. Fuck. Is. That. Even. Possible.
You're the Clayton Bixby of politics.
Even though he is a socialist (which I hate) I believe he genuinely cares about the issues he says he cares about, unlike almost everyone in politics right now, Bernie is honest. Donald Trump, well he gets shit done and is politically incorrect, he has the courage to say things that many politicians don't have the courage of addressing (a similarity between both Bernie and Trump). And Bernie has not changed that much on terms of his policies, he supported gay men and women when it was unpopular (I loved this big time!), he says what he thinks about the Saudis and no one,not even trump has the courage to do this, he is a brave man in the truest sense. I love Bernie more than Trump for that reason. But yeah, both are populists, both are unlike anyone who I have ever seen, I really wish Bernie was president for at least one term, Hillary B Clinton and the Dems cheated him out of his rightful ticket. So fuck Hillary and fuck the democratic party establishment, also fuck Joe Biden too while we are at it. For someone who make a big deal out of the Jan 6 disturbance, Dems are perfectly capable of and are willing to steal elections and throw the will of the people into the dustbin.
It's because you're a populist. They're both populist politicians. Trump is right-wing, Bernie is left-wing.
Though, the question of whether either (especially trump) actually believe in their populist positions is debatable.
Bernie sold out and Hillary still lost. I respect his body of work but he wasn't the answer.
I think the closest thing we've had to an amazing presidential candidate in the last 12 years was Andrew Yang.
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Is that some election denial I detect?
Not unless youβre a complete fucking shitlib moron that will uncritically swallow whole any anti-Muslim genocide-pushing, imperialist, global death cult capitalist bullshit that CNN or MSNBC feeds you.