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"Let me be very, very clear – it’s time to bomb Palestine after a quick lunch break." Bombie Sanders (hexbear.net)

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[-] ikiru@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

I was already an involved Leftist by the time 2016 came around so I was never too much into Bernie and I never thought he would be allowed to really change much if he won, but that being said it is good there was someone around to talk to young libs about socialism-lite.

For most it may just be or was a phase, maybe some got involved in DSA or something, but even if only a relative few will end up being pushed further Left than Bernie for the rest of their lives because of him then that was worth him running.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I worry there were people who could have been pushed farther Left without Bernie that have instead been pushed into the Democratic Party by him and sheepdogs like him.

[-] ikiru@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

It's possible, ultimately that was probably the Democratic Party's goal, but same could probably be said about Warren fans. There are always people that could be good Leftists but get caught up in either the Democratic or Republican Party, it's unavoidable when they are the dominant political powers, but it's still surprising there was someone around that got younger people thinking about organizing along the Left.

Libs gonna lib, though.

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

No dude you're not allowed to do that, you can't point out that sheepdogs are effective and that's why that strategy is used, you're supposed to just assume things could never be better