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  • hark@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldContext
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    5 days ago

    “Most progressive” is a very low bar to clear given the presidents we’ve had. Unemployment is not controlled by the president. The credit for capping insulin prices should go to Bernie Sanders, who would’ve been the president starting back in 2016 if the democratic party hadn’t insisted on crowning Hillary. We could’ve had a much better president and no Trump!




  • hark@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldIt's exhausting...
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    I remember when the needle only barely started to move toward Bernie before the democratic party super-geniuses swiftly moved in to make a whole bunch of candidates drop to put their full support behind decrepit Biden right before Super Tuesday while funding a PAC to keep Warren in the race to split votes with Bernie while running their media machine in overtime talking over and over about the “Biden miracle” after the endorsement in South Carolina gave Biden his only victory up to that point. You know, South Carolina, which didn’t even end up voting for Biden during the actual presidential election.

    Are these the democrats who are fighting back? Well, they’re certainly fighting off the leftists with all their might, that’s for sure.








  • hark@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldYep
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    6 days ago

    That they fought harder to stop Bernie from getting the nomination twice than they ever fought against trump speaks volumes. Just because they allow progressives to do a few minimal things, doesn’t mean the party does not serve the rich first and foremost. This is like how freedom of speech is allowed until it becomes a threat to the establishment (see pro-Palestinian protests that were shut down with bullshit excuses). When the possibility arose that Bernie could make actual significant change, the party threw a shitfit.

    The democratic party will never be replaced with progressives because their donors won’t allow it.