• @Son_of_dad
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    9 months ago

    At the end of the day, Bernie couldn’t even win his own party’s backing, that’s why he would have lost to Trump. Like it or not, and I do like his ideas, but Bernie is unelectable. You can give a million reasons why the democratic party refused to accept his leadership, but if even the one side couldn’t accept him as a leader, why did you expect the entire country to?

    I say this as a Canadian with no horse in the race, but if you’re gonna beat the Republicans, at least pick a guy who can actually win

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      There was actually polling showing Bernie stood a better chance than Clinton versus Trump in the general election. Despite what you might think, he is actually far more popular with fence-sitters.

      The problem of course is that in order to compete in a general election, he had to first complete in a party primary, which the party was free to rig as much as they wanted.

    • @gaylord_fartmaster
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      What does this even mean? You think if Bernie would have won the primary the DNC would have said, “actually, just go ahead and vote for Trump, we don’t really like this guy”? The RNC didn’t support Trump until he won the primary either, they were both considered anti-establishment candidates, which the powers that be hate more than anything.