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[–] nifty 74 points 4 days ago (8 children)

If we have more politicians like Bernie and AOC, we’d see less of this kind of mess. Where’s the movement that gets people like them more support?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Suppressed by the people in power. It's better for them if we fight over culture war bullshit and that's (IMO) why the right pushes so hard against things being "woke" or "dei" or whatever new scary buzzword those dumb fucks come up with.

We're too busy arguing amongst ourselves to realise we should all be looking up at the corrupt rich. But with bought off media and the ability to push propaganda at a previously impossible level just a few decades ago, a ton of the population is kept perpetually angry because non-white/straight people have the audacity to exist.

I'm a native (aka native American/indigenous however you want to call it) and over the last few years I've noticed people are increasingly comfortable showing their racism. I get followed around in stores while I'm shopping for groceries occasionally, I get managers staring me down because I took too long looking around and they think I was trying to steal and that my debit card will be declined, people happily making small talk with others and then blankly staring at me and saying nothing to me even when I'm being pleasant to them etc. All anecdotal of course and I could just be getting more bitter as I get older, but it honestly feels like a trend to me.

I've been dealing with that shit since I was a teen, you always get judged just for having the audacity to be born the wrong skin color anywhere but it's (anecdotally) gotten much worse over the last few years, which just so happens to coincide with the rise of the right all over the world.

I really hate the world sometimes tbh.

[–] btaf45 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So sorry man. Don't let the right wing assholes get to you.

[–] Duamerthrax 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

2016 was the year that people demanded a populist leader. The DNC sabotaged Bernie, which lead to low D voter turnout and the RNC bent at the knee at Trump's threats to run as a third party.

[–] finitebanjo -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How did the DNC sabotage Bernie? Bernie was allowed in the Primary despite not even belonging to the party, and primary voters chose Hillary Clinton by a huge margin.

[–] GreenSkree 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I remember right, super delegates were the main reason Bernie lost the nomination.

[–] btaf45 3 points 3 days ago

If I remember right, super delegates were the main reason Bernie lost the nomination.

That is 100% false. Unfortunately Bernie never got a majority of the ELECTED delegates.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Being suppressed by the Democrats?

[–] finitebanjo 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How can the DNC possibly suppress them? If anything, the fact that they let Third Party Bernie Sanders run in primaries for a spot on DNC presidential ticket, multiple times, is astonishing.

[–] diffusive 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As long he doesn’t win he can run as much as he wants

[–] finitebanjo 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah so you're saying the DNC swapped ballots to make us think Bernie actually lost the primary?

[–] PriorityMotif 16 points 4 days ago

The outgoing chairman of the dnc is a former corporate lobbyist.

[–] finitebanjo 5 points 3 days ago

The morons outnumber us, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

DSA, Working Families Party, Our Revolution, maybe other more radical groups like CPUSA or PSL.

[–] PugJesus 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

DSA

DSA revoked its endorsement of AOC.

[–] kreskin 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And rightly so. AOC supported the bill which conflates any criticism of the state of Israel as anti semitisim. Friends tell friends when they are wrong.

[–] inv3r510n -1 points 4 days ago

Tbh, I don’t even have faith in them.