I’d clarify that there’s a coalition of the comfortable (the PMC) and those with limited political imaginations due to oppression. The former are among the minority of the country who have good enough jobs that they get raises and good health insurance and can treat treat it like an entertainment product.
Forget about Bernie for a minute. It’s very disheartening that no matter how bad things get, more often then not, voter turn out is so low, the definition of moderate skews so rightward and Americans are so atomized that capital always seems to build a coalition of the well off and beaten down to block any serious positive material changes for the mass of people.
That should be terrifying whether or not Bernie is your candidate in 2020.
-I am terrified of a lot of things happening in America right now.
-Sorry but you are cherry picking. I could do the same, there are a ton of affluent people that support Sanders, tons of them those motivations for voting is disdain for the Democratic Establishment instead of the desperation for social democracy. Some that have regressive racial views, and some that are NIMBY as hell. People whose politics are a result of the the fact their path to the upper middle class is not has easy as their parents were. You have affluent grifters like Cenk and the Chapo ****boys scamming desperate folk out their money every money by fanning the flames of their anger. You have people that see Bernie as a vote against liberals so called turn towards "wokeness"
No side has a monopoly on good actors, bad actors, affluent a-holes treating this as a game, and desperate people just looking for some kind of positive change. So stop using the desperate people on your side as a shield to paint other folk with a broad brush.
-You can keep peddling this idea that only Sanders supporters feel a sense of urgency about America, that they are the only ones that truly care, that Bernie and only Bernie represents a serious positive change in America. For a damn year Sanders supporters, including you made bad faith arguments against other candidates that raised numerous issues with the status quo and you hand waved them because you wanted Bernie and only Bernie. You want me to buy your arguments are about something bigger than Bernie, but it sure doesn't seem like it, it seems specifically motivated my Bernie taking this L.
BTW Bernie, many of his supporters, and you....
Claimed Sanders would do much better with Southern black voters
Claimed he would bring in tons of new voters to overwhelm the system
Claimed he will motivate young voters in massive numbers.
These things are no coming to fruition, and I understand it is a tough pill to swallow, but stop for a second. Trump is an existential threat to America, and the theory of how Bernie would be able to defeat him is getting seriously undercut tonight. And your only option seems to be to complain about voters you previously claimed Sanders did not need.
Like damn, all the things you could look at Bernie and see the next person has to improve on, your first instinct is to somehow paint it has Bernie not winning is some tragedy out of his control. Bernie is not getting screwed over, as much as I wish **** was different, this **** is on him.
