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[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 146 points 1 year ago

This man could have been the president

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not if the DNC had anything to do about it, and they did.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 year ago

After all, they're part of The Big Club.

(NSFW - language)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

I voted for him, but I have a feeling his agenda would have gone nowhere thanks to the corporate ass-kissers in both parties in congress and the judiciary. Maybe we don't deserve social democracy.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I voted for him, but I have a feeling his agenda would have gone nowhere thanks to the corporate ass-kissers in both parties in congress and the judiciary. Maybe we don’t deserve social democracy.

Not with that attitude we don't.

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

that kind of defeatism guarantees that we will never have a morally upstanding president.

You are a part of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sanders would not get everything he wants done in a term, but any progress is better than our current puppet presidents

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Nah, tho. Young people didn’t vote in high enough numbers. Depressing. I voted Bernie.

[-] Esqplorer@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 year ago

I didn't. I was wrong. I'm sorry.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

At least you own it. That's progress.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Several million young prospective voters were prevented from voting by going to college in states that don't allow out of state resident voting and not being able to vote in their home states on a Tuesday.

Add the fact that colleges are typically critically underserved when it comes to voting infrastructure, leading to a requirement to stand in line for the equivalent of a full-time job working day and it's clear that it's not young people being too apathetic.

It's politicians ratfucking them almost as much as they ratfuck people of color and people of color have much better get out the vote infrastructure to counteract it than colleges do.

[-] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was young and voted for Bernie

Now I'm old and tired of this shit 😔

[-] SCB@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

He was nowhere close to even contesting the primary. He got blown out by 3 million votes.

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't say he was close. My comment is basically a wish, kind of a "what could have been" situation.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Ah ok. Thought it was another "Bernie got robbed" thing.

[-] PopcornTin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That's the thing. He wasn't going to beat Hillary in 2016. Yet, the Party took it in their hands to hurt him, give Hilary questions to debates, etc. It has always been that way. If you aren't with the Party, you won't get on their ballot.

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