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Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump
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Me too Bernie, me too.
The end of the day I won't blame the young people, though. I will blame the red hat fascists who want to install an orange dictator.
Edit: Young people get a pass because at least they are passionate about something. I'm over here, dead inside, praying to a computer that things don't get any worse then they already are.
I blame First Past The Post voting, for keeping the people handcuffed to two legacy political parties.
Perhaps Republicans would vote less clowns into office, but they are chained to the Republican party.
Same is true for the Democrats. We don't need to be stuck with these two parties. There can be something else.
Right. I wish people were upset about not having ranked choice as they were the genocide in Gaza. If we changed the way we voted voting for the lesser evil wouldn't be a thing.
I blame my dumb ass for voting for Nader in 2000. Don’t be like me. Learn from the mistakes of others!
The people who are to blame are the Republicans. That is where you need to direct your anger.
I’m not angry. I regret voting third-party in an election that barely elected Bush, a year before 9/11, that he used to justify a two front war resulting in nearly one million deaths. I’m encouraging others to learn from my mistake.
Sure but we keep losing sight of what is truly pushing us over the edge
Wanting a three party system but the government won’t comply?
I was going with a single party trying to install an autocrat.
What do you suggest people do about it this election?
I think they should vote back in Trump and let him dismantle American democracy /s
So you don’t have a suggestion? Because like it or not, Trumps base will vote him in if we don’t suck it up and vote for Biden.
I'm voting Biden despite it not meaning very much in my deep red state. I show up for down ballot elections, though. The presidency is only one hurdle. Reclaiming the government at state and local levels is way more important.
Biden should step down as the nominee and ask Bernie to run.
Bernie has my vote! Biden never will.
If you like Bernie so much maybe listen to him?
Also trump is aligned with Netanyahu and is friends with him. Do they think trump being elected will have Israel have peace with Gaza because it would definitely be the opposite. This is playing out like the Carter/Regan election with the Iran Hostage Crisis in a losing effort for Biden if they don’t figure it out.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/5/trump-says-israel-losing-pr-war-in-gaza-should-finish-war-fast
Yeah, Bernie always carries water for the DNC, and it’s always to the detriment of progressive American politics.
Record oil and gas drilling, multi-time failure to codify Roe, redlining, gave away the public option, Manchin’s removed, Bibi’s removed, tricked Warren to betray Bernie for nothing, fascist crackdown on peacefully protesting college kids, ancient dinosaur who’s out of touch. I could go on.
There are other options aside from red and blue, and as a swing state voter, I’ll be taking them. The establishment Dems would have you be angry with me and those like me, but this is a misdirection and also just another of Biden’s failings - no ability to take responsibility for his own reprehensible actions.
Americans like you are the absolute worst. So damn irresponsible. All that undeserved extra voting power you have, and you choose to squander it and use it for an act of shameful self-righteousness, with no regard for the consequences of your actions. You clearly have zero respect for progressive politics, progressive movements, and even progressive leaders.
Ignorant liberal voters: as useful for destroying democracy as ignorant fascists
I'm always teleported back to grade school and the token, "rough home life" kid. They sit there and back talk the teacher all day long applying their contrarian logic to everything little thing. Hell, on some level I'd even agree with them but not because they're right in what they are doing but they accidentally make a salient point. The end of the day, though, the teacher was attempting to do good for this kid and we all just watch as they throw it back in their face.
This may be a hot take but as someone in my 40s I don't think anybody in their 80s has a fucking clue what's good for me.
To bad they also have no idea how they foreclosed our future, though the window for them to not have to confront the awful cynicism of their choices has justttt about closed (you can actually see the gates now off in the distance, they are the 33 named storms expected by quite shellshocked meterologists and storm forecasters to pummel the Carribean and North America this summer in what is projected to be one of the worst hurricane seasons on record by about as far as the distance is between the sea temperatures off the coast of Africa where hurricanes are born are being ALREADY AT THE TEMPERATURES THEY NORMALLY ONLY REACH IN LATE JUNE OR JULY and whatever the shitty record used to be)
That's true but who do you think keeps voting for these fucks?
Boomers primarily.
Keep voting for 99% Hitler instead of 100% gets us to the same place
Biden is not fuckin Hitler, you enlightened genius!
Keep voting for ~~Ralph Nader~~ ~~Gary Johnson~~ ... err I mean Jill Stein instead of doing something useful.
Seriously, what's the worse that could happen? It's not like ~~Bush will get us into a massive war and end any hope at fighting climate change~~ err I mean, it's not like ~~Trump will enflame the ongoing war in the Middle East and decimate any chance the Supreme Court will side with minorities for an entire generation~~ no wait, I mean, surely Trump won't imprison his political enemies and dismantle the electoral process.
Ignore what I crossed out; it's just American history. You probably wouldn't be interested
Game theory is a tough subject, but it would be worth it for you to study to understand how you are acting against your less preferred candidate and helping what should be your least preferred candidate (assuming your ranked choice has the republican nominee below the democratic nominee).
You make it seem as though your protest vote does not also get us to the same place? Many voters have shared your mentality and voted accordingly for the past 200+ years and it’s not made a difference, what makes you think this time things will change?
In "The Ultimatum Game," the first player makes an offer of how to split $100 with a second player, who can then choose whether to accept or deny the offer. If they accept, they split the money as proposed, if they refuse, neither of them get anything.
The game theory rational outcome is for the first player to offer $99-$1, and for the second player to accept. Assuming, of course, that the first player knows the second will act according to game theory rationality. In real life, when experiments have been done, people tend to reject offers past about $70-$30. Because people tend to have a minimum line, it makes more sense to make offers more generous than $99-$1.
There's a good reason why people behave that way. It's because, in practice, when a comparable situation comes up, it's usually not just a one and done interaction. The second player can tell the first what they will or won't accept, and if they accept something less than what they said, they lose credibility in the future. In that sort of situation, the worst possible thing for the second player to tell the first is that they intend to act according to their rational self-interest, that they'll accept any offer because it's better than getting nothing.
I would argue that this situation is analogous to voting. The politicians make an offer on how much they'll do for you vs how much they'll benefit themselves, and the voter has the option to accept or refuse the offer. Just as in the above example, it's sometimes better to refuse a bad offer even if the alternative is worse, in order to gain bargaining power and credibility in the future. Meanwhile, following a strategy of "lesser-evilism" guarantees that you will only ever be offered 99-1 splits, because they know you'll accept 1 rather than zero.
Sometimes, an "irrational" strategy can be more effective than what appears to be game theory rational on the surface level.
Voting for Biden gets us to the same place. At least I'm voting for "not genocide"
So FUCKING TIRED of the "moral" wing of our single party govt this go round staying completely silent on Republicans and their policies to blame the world on anyone who won't "vote blue no matter who" though even mainstream Democrats and pundits can't come up with anything better than "yeah Biden does it but trump will do it worse!"
I don't give a fuck how hot a take it is - if "voting for not genocide" makes me a filthy commie than let me fetch my sickle and hammer. Enjoy your "moral high ground" of blaming all our problems on people who think genocide is bad (or making it easy to strip leftist orgs of non profit status, or a handful of other things y'all libs purposefully ignore in lieu of pushing your false narrative that anyone left of Biden are "single issue voters" who "advocate for not voting."
You literally just started by saying you won't vote for him for a single issue, then end by saying you are not a single issue voter.
Tell me you didn't read the comment without reading the comment.
Fuck off, faschie.
I don't even necessarily disagree with your ideas, it's the rhetoric I find disheartening.
Biden isn't 99% Hitler though
The only stickler really is the Israeli support, which he is trying to stop. He isn't even actively pursuing it.
So it is 20% Hitler at best, and dropping.
How is failure to codify Roe on your list and you don't give a shit if we have more fundamentalist judges or not?
How is oil and gas drilling on your list and you don't give a shit if the executive branch is actively dismantling the EPA or not?
I also hate Manchin, you think a progressive Dem is going to be elected in WV? It's either him or a Repub.
I'm not mad at you, specifically, but it is enraging to see dimwits throw their ballots in the trash. Good luck to all of us. Your preferred system is not going to rise from the ashes.
Resize the court is obviously the only solution to this broken situation primed to let the criminal, traitor Trump walk free.
EPA doesn’t mean shit when energy companies are lobbying both sides. Is this supposed to be a determining factor? Look no further than mayor Pete’s handling of East Palestine, OH for your answer.
Richard Ojeda actually had a good chance in WV until the DNC poured millions into attack ads to keep their establishment dog in power. Said dog went on to ram through yet another disastrous pipeline thanks to Biden , lining both their pockets with oil and gas money, before riding off into the sunset.
Luck has nothing to do with it with a system so brutally rigged against the populace. Neither of these “sides” is ever going to do anything beyond exploiting us. I’ll use what little power remains in my vote to try for an alternative. If more people believed something better was possible, perhaps we could yet achieve it.
Can you just save it for a different election? I'm all about 3rd party politics making inroads. But, Jill Stein is NOT going to be elected this time around. Sorry to break it to you. And if Trump gets elected, guess what: we might not have free and fair elections to vote for 3rd parties at all! What's the plan then?
My friend…
Not sure how long you’ve been voting, but as it turns out according to DNC every election is the most important of our lifetime, and the alternative would be all out fascism. I invite you to consider the words of Dr King and why they matter so much today.
Nah, you're using what little power remains in your vote to line a trashcan. And you don't care about the consequences because you are privileged enough that you won't be directly targeted by Repubs.
But the important thing is you'll have owned the "Bothsides Uniparty" by... helping Donald get elected? Yeah, the massive tax cuts will really sting their butts. Good thinking.
Steadfast in binary thinking, how boring and small.
Not sure if you’re aware, but Biden admin is responsible for locking in those Trump tax cuts for the rich and corporations you’re so upset about. I’m being targeted by Dems right now at college campuses across the country, and there is an option left of them which would instead prioritize green infrastructure and organized labor. The choice for me is clear.
Is the extent of your support for Biden limited to “not Trump”? Yikes.
Truly privileged.
me when I decide to waste my vote as a swing state voter, instead of meaningfully pulling my support for a candidate that's ultimately going to get elected anyways out of protest as a non-swing state voter:
Voter suppression tactics
good acknowledgement of the point I was making there, very cool
Thanks. Everyone needs a mirror held up to themselves or have their actions questioned. No one can be truly objective, but we're social animals. Take it easy.
Could you provide sources? I'm just curious to keep a log
Burn it all down woohoo /s