The only comfort I can find in this is that in a constant battle of consolidating an individual’s power, it is very difficult to maintain a cohesive political movement in the long term.
In other words, I think these people are too selfish to build or maintain any society at all. This is bound to crumble sooner than later, but it is sad to see underprivileged and stupid people be taken on this shitty ride. And it really fucking sucks that the rest of us get swept in their shitstorm.
Check out the costume in that article pic. If Tesla goes under he can just move over to the rock scene, right? Metallica can become MeTeslaca. I see some similar features. Think anyone would notice if someone swapped him for Hetfield…oh…wait, didn’t someone already swap a Hetfield with a Hetfield?
True, but I wonder if the PCI of the 90% of Irish who are among the 95% richest and 95% poorest in Ireland is greater than 90% of those those in Israel proper who are among the 95% richest and 95% poorest in Israel proper.
Afaik he’s always been independent. I think he ran with the democratic party for the presidency, but unless I missed something he’s always been independent with his senate position
Because he did not have the best campaign staff and the Democratic party establishment preferred other candidates. His base was mostly young white people or college students who don’t turn out to vote enough.
I worked for Bernie’s campaign in ‘16, and I agree with this about some of his top staff… There were times where it legitimately seemed like they were deliberately screwing things up… And since a lot of them were establishment Dems who had previously worked for the likes of Hillary it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out they were.
I think the biggest reason he lost the primary was the Party shenanigans though. All the tricks we see the Republicans using now-a-days like voter purges and closing polling locations last minute are tricks they learned from Hillary’s campaign and the DNC schills that control the state parties. And of course there was just straight up fraud in some places like Iowa.
As for his supporters, he actually got millions of young people to show up and vote in the primary who otherwise wouldn’t have. Millions of whom almost certainly didn’t show up to vote for Clinton, and likely wouldn’t have thought twice about voting at all had it not been for Bernie. Had he been on the ballot millions of young people who didn’t show up for Clinton would have shown up. I doubt anyone who voted for Clinton would have voted for Trump over Bernie, and I doubt they would have stayed home. The DNC flushed millions of new voters’ votes down the toilet by forcing Clinton through.
So an independent who could actually represent the masses kissed the 2 party ring and America went to hell, do not pass go, noone got their full 200 dollars.
I wouldn’t say he kissed the ring. He’s always caucuses with dems, and he knew a major part ticket is the only way to get in, so he shot his shot for the dem nomination. Didn’t work out and he backed off because he likes dem presidents a lot more than the alternative
The GOP is representing pretty much nothing but corporate interests, and citizen rights repression. A recipe that will take decades to repair, if ever.
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