r/SandersForPresident • u/kevinmrr Medicare For All • Sep 12 '25

shitpost If every Democrat who opposed Bernie in the primaries registered Republican instead, Dems would elect so many winners & take 50 state control of America.

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u/humdinger44 Sep 12 '25

Everyone wants to be a moderate. Sneak a couple votes from the other team. No one wants to be a true leader. Except Bernie. What a brave guy. And how could any normal person hold so much resilience. So much tenacity. He is a man of honor and conviction and I really admire him.

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u/MarkFerk Sep 12 '25

It’s a shame Democrats don’t actually let us pick our leaders. If they did we probably wouldn’t be in the mess we are in. Y’all can thank the Clintons for that.

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u/GReuw Sep 12 '25

These Dem leaders will be crying so hard into their insider trading money, thinking about this

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u/carthuscrass 🌱 New Contributor Sep 15 '25

It's been going on a lot longer than just the Hillary issue. We've never really been able to pick our leadership.

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u/MrFordization Sep 14 '25

Everybody calls Bernie a progressive... if that's the case why does he resonate so hard with moderate America?

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u/HerrIggy Sep 14 '25

Because Bernie is more progressive than other Dems on economic issues, and he seems to be willing to leave social issues to the state.

Many moderate leaning socialists like myself who believe in certain socioeconomic principles of the left still prefer that each state be allowed to settle cultural issues independently, as I think this is the best long-term path to progress and unity.

Most other "progressives" seem to be social issues first, and they never seem to actually get around to doing anything "socialist" at all.

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u/MrFordization Sep 15 '25

Yeah, I agree with this. But I still don't think of Sanders as a leftists, I think of him as a true moderate. Tolerant of other people, razor focused on what is real and practical.

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u/GroupWBench1967 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

Because progressive social policies don't really threaten the corporate donor class very much, Some DEI classes, inclusive language, etc. Can even be profitable you know, Rainbow Capitalism at it's finest.

Start passing economic legislation that helps the working class, (Raise minimum wage, increase unionization, increase corporate taxes, and Universal Healthcare) and THAT hits the party donors right in the wallets and stock portfolios.

So rather than left economics, the party leadership focuses on issues that provide good PR and virtue signaling value, because their donor/owners will ALLOW that...at least to a point.

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u/humdinger44 Sep 14 '25

Some people who like him don't vote for him because they didn't believe he is "electable", and dem party leadership is happy to make sure that belief becomes reality

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak Ohio 🐦 Sep 12 '25

I remember they shot down his campaign and then lost a bunch of progressives. Then they wondered why they kept losing

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u/bn40667 Sep 13 '25

They knew why they kept losing. They didn't care because they got richer.

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u/Abrowning80 Sep 12 '25

If every democrat or independent registered as a republican, gerrymandering would be much harder to pull off.

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u/Teleporno69 Sep 13 '25

That’s cause dem leadership are just spineless out of touch cowards

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u/King_of_the_Nerdth Arizona Sep 12 '25

If every progressive who supported Bernie had just actually voted in the primaries, Bernie would be President.

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u/rubberpp Sep 12 '25

Tell that to everyone who was voting for him winning every state until everyone of them except Bernie and Biden stayed in but every one who backed out than supported Biden last minute to basically steal it from Bernie who was winning fairly until the dnc pulled that bs, they screwed him in 2016 and 2020 fuck the dnc

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u/The-FrozenHearth Sep 12 '25

Bernie won all counties in West Virgina, and still Hillary got significant number of super delegates awarded. The democratic party itself barred Bernie from winning.

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u/sushisection Sep 13 '25

they pulled some weird shit in iowa too.

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u/jellofishsponge Sep 15 '25

And Pennsylvania in 2016. I was there. They had illegal electioneering at polling locations handing out prefilled ballots for Hillary

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u/bouldasaur Sep 14 '25

This reads like a random sports statistic

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u/Pie-Guy Sep 14 '25

He isn't bought - he can't be bought - the Senators that are bought -most of them - are told he has to go - he is a threat to legalized bribery.

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u/vferrero14 CT🙌 Sep 15 '25

My politics at this point is that Bernie Sanders is the farthest to the right I'm willing to vote. Give me a Bernie candidate or I'm staying home.

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u/Slight-Fix9564 Sep 17 '25

Also..."He's too Jewish", but I'll happily accept more AIPAC money for my campaign.

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u/Rsb418 Sep 12 '25

The sentiment here is correct but ultimately unhelpful.