• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    democratic socialists

    Lmao he’s a socdem not a socialist get a grip LIB. Socialists supported him as a compromise during the previous election. That compromise was resoundingly rejected by the ruling class and will not be coming back. There was absolutely no reason for socialists to continue supporting him after that occurred and there’s certainly no reason to do so currently.

    American liberals are seriously the most politically illiterate people in the world.

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      There was absolutely no reason for socialists to continue supporting him after that occurred

      Especially after he enthusiastically endorsed Joe “Dixiecrat friends-with-Strom-Thurmond-and-Jesse-Helms Crime-Bill-writing make-discharging-student-loans-in-bankruptcy-illegal” Biden.

      If Sanders had the slightest personal convictions anymore, he’d have gone out in a blaze of glory after the 2020 primaries. He had a safe comfortable retirement on the horizon. He could have extremely publicly called out all his colleagues for the shady shit they’ve pulled. But no, he wanted to hang on in politics, so he made nice with the Democrats. He’s a pale shadow of the good man he once was. Now he’s just a sheepdog for the DNC, herding well-meaning but gullible soft-leftists into voting Democrat.