“It’s almost a cruel joke on the electorate that the longest presidential election potentially ever might also be the one that they’re least excited about,” said one Democratic pollster, speaking anonymously to candidly discuss the race.
“It’s almost a cruel joke on the electorate that the longest presidential election potentially ever might also be the one that they’re least excited about,” said one Democratic pollster, speaking anonymously to candidly discuss the race.
If Sanders is a polarizing figure, it’s because democrats (and republicans, obviously) paint him that way because his policies diaagree with their donors. In reality, Sanders’ policies align with the vast majority of Americans, but there’s no way that’ll be allowed through our bought-out election system.
Bro I’ll let you try and explain the difference between communism and socialism to my boomer Conservatard father, this is your average Con, Neo-Con, and Neo-Lib, they simply often can’t separate the terms, and with Bernie unabashedly displaying the socialist/democratic socialist moniker he scares the people who can’t get over the red scare and the anti-communist/socialist programming they’ve been brainwashed with for decades, and it’s specifically that kind of stuff that makes Biden the better and safer pick against Trump, plus Bernie is older than both Trump and Biden, so there is the age factor as well.
The scaremongering about communism and socialism is something both republicans and democrats benefit from. Again, neither have any interest in countering this narrative since the kind of policies that Bernie supports, which a majority of Americans do as well, are the kind of policies that republican and democrat donors do not want.
This in itself is BS, George Soros, yes Right winger Boogeyman George Soros, he supports many groups that advocate for socialism and Democratic socialism, there are a few other Democratic donors that do as well, however of course most rich folks aren’t going to back candidates that operate against their interests, and pushing back against the wealthy, regulating against them and their businesses, and taxing their wealth is obviously against their own self-interests.
My point was more about the lifelong hold that cold war propaganda has on our boomers and my fellow Gen X’ers, and how it does dissuade people from accepting Bernie’s stances qnd getting past how he describes his political ideology, and I say this as a 100% Bernie supporter, I’m just a realist, and the reality is that cold war propaganda still has a hold on our nation, and until we break we’ll still have to deal with people like my conservatard father saying “hurr durr socialism is communism!!” despite being given shit loads of evidence to demonstrate the differences.
Biden was bragging that he was “the guy who beat the socialist” (referring to Bernie) to show how not a socialist he is. Democrats are anti-socialist. If there are democrat donors who advocate for socialism, they’re crowded out by the vast majority who advocate for the opposite.