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In reply to the discussion: Bernie is really fucking old. He can't leave the door open forever. [View all]
Quiet Em
(2,597 posts)78. Democratic voters made their choice.
He didn't win, he didn't even come close.
I don't understand why this nonsense talking point continues.
The DNC doesn't vote, people do.
Bernie Sanders had a very strong and loyal base. And a very passionate base. But it wasn't as big as Hillary Clinton's.
Hillary Clinton won the nomination by the vote of the people. It had nothing to do with the DNC.
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Bernie is really fucking old. He can't leave the door open forever. [View all]
SalamanderSleeps
May 2025
OP
Yes, but also rich and famous and able to get away with stunts we would never pull.
CTyankee
May 2025
#11
And that just proves the point of the need to have at least statewide political experience. n/t
valleyrogue
May 2025
#15
Nope. That's wishful thinking and not something that would work in the real world.
Oopsie Daisy
May 2025
#2
Not populist. FDR was a top 1% elite establishment wealthy capitalist, not a populist or democratic socialist.
betsuni
May 2025
#42
History shows that this message is definitely not the way to win national elections.
Oopsie Daisy
May 2025
#35
This is true, Obama is the only president elected so far with a non European last name
fujiyamasan
May 2025
#19
Sorry, both need to win a state wide race, the US Senate, serve there like Pres. O did before...
brush
May 2025
#7
I took it to mean that they've been lurking since day one and just joined in 2022.
Xavier Breath
May 2025
#46
By that I guess you mean that women, and women of color, and homosexuals
Jack Valentino
May 2025
#20
The sad truth is that there is a 0 track record of electing a woman to the presidency
elocs
May 2025
#25
I've voted for Democrats exclusively for over 50 years now. Your stance is simply stupid,
elocs
May 2025
#38
No chance that will result in a win. I like Mark Cuban somehow dealt into the ticket.
Melon
May 2025
#24
So, all the people that read the site but have not joined are not considered 'people' or something?
OldBaldy1701E
May 2025
#34
Sanders has also accomplished so very little in his decades-long legislative career.
W_HAMILTON
May 2025
#43
Most all Democratic progressive ideals since 1960 were born from youth and the left of center.
PufPuf23
May 2025
#62
That ticket would work wonderfully, if you want to give the fascists a landslide victory.
BlueTsunami2018
May 2025
#45
That ticket would not work in 2028 and it is the DemocraTIC Party, not the Democrat Party.
LoisB
May 2025
#51
***IF*** They're going after new voters with new ideas yes .. but if they're going after the white male vote...
uponit7771
May 2025
#52
Yeah Bernie is old, but he isn't running, as far as I can tell. AS FOR AOC,
DJ Synikus Makisimus
May 2025
#55