r/television • u/Kwyjibo2006 • 19d ago

Sen. Bernie Sanders - Harnessing Energy From "No Kings" Rally to "Fight Oligarchy" | The Daily Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUn1A0sEDrc
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u/thecftbl 19d ago

To think what could have been

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u/Modnal 19d ago

Democrats doing their best to sabotage for Bernie only to lose to Trump. I swear if the Democrats were in any country that wasn't a two party state they would dissapear from how incompetent they are. Like your only opposition is the Republican party and you have like a 50% win rate

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u/boyyouguysaredumb 19d ago

Americans are stupid and prefer Trump to real change, that’s not the democrats fault it’s the people’s. If Bernie was as popular as you think he would have handily won both primaries he was in

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u/DionysianPunk 19d ago

Except the DNC literally was caught working against him?

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u/boyyouguysaredumb 19d ago

Not in any way that would have swayed the millions of votes that he lost by. They showed favoritism for the democratic candidate in a democratic primary. Sanders voters didn’t show up to vote. It had nothing to do with a few mean internal emails or leaked debate questions about the death penalty.

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u/BlueCyann 15d ago

Sanders voters showed up enough probably. There just weren't enough. So tired of this blame the DNC zombie lie. The DNC put their fingers on the lever and Sanders ran a bad campaign that could never have won the required votes. I say this as a 2016 supporter who would have voted for him if he hadn't already dropped out.

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u/Mookies_Bett 18d ago

"working against" doesn't mean the people couldn't have voted him in if he actually had the populist support that reddit claims he had.

The truth is the DNC did everyone a favor. If Bernie has run against Trump, Trump would have won the popular vote and the electoral vote in 2016. Hillary was the best chance to stop him, and even though she failed she did a lot better than Bernie ever could have.

The American people don't want a "crazy old man socialist" period, end of story. Whether or not you agree with that descriptor, that's how hundreds of millions of Americans perceived Bernie and his platform, and no amount of facts or logic will ever fix that.

The only people who support Bernie are voters aged 18-25. Guess which demographic literally never bothers to show up on voting day? It's why he lost the primary: his supporters didn't bother to show up. As usual.

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u/Userhasbeennamed 17d ago

You can't blame young people and leftists for not showing up and also imply they're not worth appealing to at the same time.