So, what concessions are the Bernie contingent willing to give to the more centrist minded Democrats? The centrists aren’t just going to fall in line behind Bernie if he wins the party nomination... kind of like how the Bernie faction didn’t fall in line behind Hillary when she won the nomination. Sanders having some kind of perceived ideological purity doesn’t excuse him from having to bring together multiple parts of the Democratic Party through compromise on a shared agenda.
“If you want the votes of voters like me make us an offer we can’t refuse” it’s this kind of rhetoric that makes progressives so damn unlikeable. And I say this as someone who voted for Bernie in the primary in 2016 and is in general a left of center democrat. The Bernie or Bust crowd has this terrible holier-than-thou attitiude that is a huge turnoff to people not already supporting Bernie. They’re a voting contingent that probably should have been listened to more in 2016, but they seem to think Sanders and his ideas are the magical cure all for the Democrats when they aren’t.
this thread reminds me why it's impossible to work with liberal fake elftists: they always prefer to tear each other apart than the structures of oppression.
the sanders contingent got behind clinton and fell in line for every practical purpose, thats the truth. if you want to deny this truth, then know that you have no potential as a revolutionary class because you prefer to name your co conspirators supposed betrayals as your greivences rather than the state apparatus, i.e the electoral college. which actually stole the election.
and the imagined 'hillary contingent' has so much more to answer for wrt to alienating voters, only a rich privileged person could see moving center as not alienating voters, because as a rich person they are personally alienated from a progressive agenda in the age of rampant inequality and not alienated by centrist agenda.
this impulse to compromise with rich centrists who share none of your political policies is what killed the democrats, centrists want republican neoliberalism way more than democrats so moving center is a losing game.
it's like ur saying that sanders should be milquetoast and spineless to bring together the last handful of biollionaires who still vote for fake progressive policy.
it's ppl's lives and our society's principles, it's unbelievably insulting and myopic to assert sanders supporters are holier than thou because they have taken ppl besides themselves' interests into account in their policy considerations. yes, sanders supporters are just so smug because they want to end the military industrial complex... the whole world pays for this <- line of myopic thinking, just realize that if u can
its the easiest rhetoric in the world to, when faced with superior reasoning, accuse one's opponents of having a smug attitude or bad attitude as this moves away from how poorly thought out and executed one's position is.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/berni...er-his-support-amid-anti-semitism-controversy
sanders is the only candidate who is even close to being different from a republican, not that hopeful, but some hope is better than none. sanders is currently the only candidate who even has his head wrapped around a longterm leftist vision, the rest of the field are honestly career politicians making it up as they go along, theyll be happy to deliver us to another demagogue and let the world burn around them as long as their legacy is cemented.
I pray stacey abrams runs and that when she does sanders will throw his support behind her and his supporters will fall in line.
quick reality check on who isn't falling in line, lets go back to 2008 if little fake leftists can remember that far:
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday chalked up the fact that some of his supporters during 2016’s Democratic primaries eventually voted for Donald Trump in the general election to “the nature of politics.”
“People say not everybody who voted for Bernie ended up voting for Hillary, no kidding!" Sanders said on "Meet The Press."
He added, "That's what happens in politics," specifically pointing to some samples that have showed as many as a quarter of Clinton's primary voters in 2008 ended up voting for John McCain in the general election.
there is no eyeroll in the world large enough for ppl still looking to cast aspersions on sanders supportertsin the name of clinton 2016