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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
That is just stupid. Seriously, just really stupid.
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It's not. This is pretty much an accepted facts in political circles. Sanders voters were a disruptive block and were the tipping point. Clinton is largely to blame for this as she did not work to bring their voting block into the fold, but it was a large chunk of Sanders supporters that abandoned the Democrats and voted for Trump out of spite. You can call it stupid - and it was on their part - but its what happened.
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
There's also zero evidence for the idea that Bernie bros no showed on Hillary. She received 100k less votes than Obama got in 2012.
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https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sand...lection-654320
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/54581...p-survey-finds
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-the-election/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspi.../#23389c22539f
The evidence is there.
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The centrist orthodoxy these last three years lacks any form of introspection. Lead around by the nose into a half dozen sham we got him nothingburgers.
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Now this is stupid. "Nothingburgers" which included piles of evidence of crimes, more charges and convictions than there were in Watergate, and a "trial" where no witnesses or evidence was brought forward to protect Trump? That just ignorance of the facts, pretending that corruption in the Republican party doesn't exist, and believing that everything that has happened in the past four years (it seems like forty) had no impact to our country, society, and culture.
If Sanders is such a great leader, and the last great hope for this country, what has he done the last four years to change anything, to hold the Trump administration in check, or be a voice of reason against the abuses we've seen? Bernie Sanders is a populist figure, but he hasn't done anything to show leadership at a time when the country has needed it the most. If anything, Sanders has been hiding in the background waiting to campaign again rather than putting himself out there as the foil to the administration. Where is Sanders' voice in the senate right now, and standing up yelling from the rooftops that our democracy is under attack and the actions of the Republicans are not only immoral, but counter to their responsibilities as defined by the constitution?