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Originally Posted by Lune
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What would you have had him do? Blacks robbed him of the nomination, again, so he's supposed to maintain conflict with the Democrat nominee and risk throwing the election to Trump? I think you're outlining a flaw in the two party system, not a flaw in Bernie Sanders.
He doesn't have the same signal strength as someone like Trump, or to a far lesser extent, AOC. He can't just hop on twitter and drum up news spotlight with his twitter trolling. In fact, that would probably be counterproductive to his appeal as an honest and decent person. It's not for a lack of trying, the dude goes after as much spotlight as he can get. He's on Maher like once a month and his rabid base memed hard during his contests.
He didn't go quietly into the margins, he was forced into the margins by a country that does not deserve him. I should be clear. I'm not entirely sure Bernie would have made an exceptional president. As great a person as he is, I think he lacks a certain shrewdness. He would have been stonewalled by both parties if he tried to accomplish even a single one of his policy aims. He works much better in the role of political symbol, a person who can rally support behind a discrete policy goals and build a grassroots base. Ironically, this was also Trump's most effective role, and Trump was far more effective at it to the extent that he created a cult.
But then, conservatives are much easier to herd than your average non-college campus white democrat. He still would have been a far better president than Hillary or Trump. Accomplishing little to nothing is better than actively destroying the country. Who knows what would have happened.
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My perspective comes from watching him never withhold his vote to force leverage, just like the squad. I don't claim to be a political wizard, so I won't pretend I can just dismiss your perspective. The complexity of the process makes it essentially opaque to me still. I'm willing to entertain that from his POV, he is doing all he can and trying very hard.
All I know is that I can't see him making plays publicly. Or doing anything but talking, and trying to accumulate higher offices. There have been a number of situations -- Pelosi's speakership reconfirmation, CARES act, etc. -- where I wished the squad and Bernie had made a play while they sat totally silent. I believe they are not playing their offices to their full effect.
I would obviously have preferred he won in 2016 as well as 2020 -- even with the less-charitable view of him. Sounds like you might be implying I stand by Trump in any way, which I promise I don't. murdered 400k+, literal psychopath grand disaster with zero accomplishments. A tax cut and appointing judges by virtue of being the guy in office, and the creation of the greatest American disaster since the Civil War. Both in terms of the pandemic death and the psychological trauma which has damaged and radicalized the majority of our countrymen in one way or another and wildly escalated the growth of what I think to be our gravest vulnerability: anti-intellectual stupidity/insanity/paranoia/sadism/collective mental illness. Absolutely horrific. Don't call me out for voting for that guy again plz, I changed genders to get far away from that mistake
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