• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    Honestly what I’m more angry about is what happens when you look at the numbers for primaries.

    In nearly every instance where a progressive lost the primary, it’s down to these assholes, at this point I am convinced, just looking for any excuse to call the whole thing scuffed so when they inevitably just forget when polling day is they don’t have to feel bad about it.

    Bernie could have won both times and ridden in on a progressive tsunami.

    He only didn’t because those fucking brats pulled the football, again.

    I would be shocked to find a single election where fauxgressives finding any fault to justify having the turnout energy of cosmic background radiation wasn’t the reason an unpopular liberal won the primary, or an unpopular conservative/fascist won the general.

    If progressives had even half the energy for showing up that they did for pitching fits about the people that did not doing the revolution for them, we’d have a country that was at least on the track to be what our boomer parents and teachers tried to insist it already was.

    • Knightfox@lemmy.one
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      4 hours ago

      Amen, I was so freaking mad in 2016 because I was a big Bernie supporter and I remember reading an article where some college kids had been polled. The kid in question said he wasn’t really fond of Hillary and was thinking of not voting for her. The interviewer asked who he liked to which he said he really preferred Bernie Sanders and was upset he didn’t win the primary. The interviewer then asked if he had voted in the primary and the kid said he had forgotten to go vote.