• @chitak166@lemmy.world
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    1711 year ago

    Bernie should have won.

    Fuck everyone who voted for Hillary in the primary to guarantee a trump presidency.

    • @Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It was less that and more the Democratic Party completely rigging the election, and committing election fraud, in plain sight for the primaries.

      • @IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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        441 year ago

        It’s also the way baseless smears (he owns more than one home! He once wrote something that, if taken completely out of context, is misogynist!) were amplified by neoliberals. The same neoliberals that would throw a hissy fit if someone mentioned how much Hillary “earned” from speaking to banks and hedge funds.

      • @misophist@lemmy.world
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        221 year ago

        My understanding is that the US primaries are private affairs and the organisations can pick their candidates however they want. The democrats certainly did some unethical shit to snub Bernie in favor of Hillary, but I don’t know if Primary shenanigans can qualify as the crime of election fraud (unless some of the states protect their primary elections in the same way they do for real elections).

        • @Djtecha@lemm.ee
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          31 year ago

          See this is what I disagree with when you have states that actually fund the two parties. In Washington there are tax allocated resources for the gop/dems and third parties get screwed. So I think it’s messed up when the party head just gets to pick.

          • @misophist@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            Well, those 2 parties have had a stranglehold on our entire lawmaking infrastructure since anybody currently alive was born. They’ve had a loooooong time to implement election rules and campaign finance laws that only benefit themselves at the expense of those smaller parties.

            • Exocrinous
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              -11 year ago

              If they want to turn themselves into the government, they ought to be beholden to the constitution for their elections.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        the Democratic Party completely rigging the election

        Its very hard to do the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” rah-rah election dance in The Most Important Race of Our Lives, when you’ve got “elections are horribly run and routinely compromised by party insiders” rolling around in the back of your head.

        I’ve been a Texas resident for my entire voting life, and the GOP nakedly fucking with the elections process is just something I can’t talk about to anyone.

    • Bernie should have won.

      Its funny, because one of the worst things about him has been his decades-long staunch support for the Israeli state.

      The big difference between Sanders and Biden is that he’s cognizant. The ship is turning on US support for Israel and Bernie sees it. But Biden’s got his head entirely lodged inside the Beltway news circuit. He’s more worried about how Claudine Gay’s firing is going to impact his poll numbers than what horrors Netanyahu plans to inflict on Gaza in order to force Palestinians into a Congolese exile.

    • iesou
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      111 year ago

      The DNC fucked him over man. No one wants a real progressive who cares about people as president.