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Originally Posted by Swish
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Antifa aren't happy about Biden being sworn in and are rioting. Who would they have in office?
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Maybe Bernie. The D primary was rigged (again) to give Biden the win even though Bernie ought to have won the plurality. It is democracy denied, so I wouldn't blame them.
In fact in this case it was not arcane meddling with the rules like in 2016 that fucked Bernie; it is the actual vote that seemed extremely suspect. Pete "won" Iowa, but pulled no numbers ANYWHERE else and quickly dropped out (as if to prevent a larger dataset to draw attention to the strange Iowa result), and his behavior on the day he "won" Iowa was extremely suspect. On the day of that win in the first contest, which ought to have elated him and boosted his apparently broad support, he did not display excitement when caught by press, and indeed seemed irritable and disinterested. Almost as though he knew he had no chance, and could not pretend to be excited -- even though from the consensus POV, he should only have known that he was winning. Thereafter he had a pitiful showing and dropped out quickly.
I know there are a lot of schizo theorists on this board but real shenanigans with backing evidence *do* happen, a party primary is substantially more riggable, and the context of Pete's Iowa win truly is highly suspect. Warren also stayed in the race very late past her chance to win, a betrayal of her own agenda as all it accomplished was to sap votes from Bernie with whom she broadly 'agrees'. Warren therefore is transparently shown as a party hack with no policy scruples. Bernie would otherwise have soundly clobbered Biden, even after the results of Iowa.
Biden is actively liked by only a tiny minority of Americans; he was merely preferred over Trump. It is a fact that a plurality of the Democratic party was screwed in this election. The notion that anybody wanted Biden has been and will be a straw man for the next four years, and anyone behaving like the "other side" truly wanted Biden is an intellectually dishonest clown.
Biden is essentially a RINO, a neoliberal who doesn't do the right's hatemongering idpol. Bush the 7th or Reagan the 8th really. It is totally appropriate for left radicals to protest the right-wing administration which was just elected.
That said, Bernie's behavior since the primary is inexcusable so it's kinda whatever. It's a shame he was the best we had for healthcare and other basic mechanisms of social progress and human investment we should enjoy by way of our great collective wealth.