Bernie’s campaign activated many hopeless young people towards a leftward vision of US politics. Without him our ranks would be thinner and our message and goals would be more fringe.
He is also a coward and a Zionist, but he was extremely useful. Both can be true. There is no shame in having supported a failed candidate’s advocacy for working people on a national scale.
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s, don’t yourself it’s not kindYeah, not to be a lib but bourgeois elections shouldn’t be ignored entirely. If we have a couple useful idiots or even just someone to culturally tell fascists to fuck off, I call that worth investing in.
“not to be a lib but bourgeois elections shouldnt be ignored entirely” -Lenin in what is to be done
“Hey guys, here is my take”
“Oh yeah, theory already covered that.”
Damn. Need to start actually reading theory lmao.
Damn. Need to start actually reading theory lmao.
Alternative conclusion: Heh, naturally I independently come to the same conclusions as Lenin. I knew reading theory was a scam.
Bourgeois parties, however, should be ignored and any campaigning in elections should be as a party of labor
Also “Left Communism: An Infantile Disorder”
just don’t let it siphon off your primary activism effort. not something anyone here is in danger of doing.
I’m not American so I was on the sidelines, but I think there was merit in supporting the Bernie campaign in 2020, even if Bernie himself has been a disappointment since. The campaign was extremely successful in spite of the active pushback from the status quo political establishment. The Democrats had to sacrifice a lot of their credibility to stop Bernie from getting a shot at the general election, and ultimately the result was Biden shitting the bed in as many ways as you can shit a bed.
I would argue that the Bernie 2020 campaign hastened the decline of the Democratic Party, and for the right reasons. It showed that people will come out to support good things, and the Biden train wreck showed that those same people will stay home if you don’t do those things.
What would have been sad is to see him win and have to watch him send a trillion dollars to Ukraine and Israel while still not being able to get universal healthcare off the ground. That would have qualified for the
for sure.I think SocDems had a historically progressive role in the hyperreactionary landscape of the US. Before Bernie, “socialist” was a pejorative. Now it’s a lot more complicated, we can actually talk about socialism now without being written off and liberals are calling themselves socialists to win elections. Also, in Iowa especially I can use Bernie getting ratfucked out of the race to pull people away from Dems, because they so obviously destroyed the caucus to hand a win to a loser nobody like Mayo Pete.
They’ve outlived their shelf-life, though. Mamdani is now actually to the right of where a lot of USAmericans are on police and on Israel; he holds progress back every time he pointlessly compromises with Democrats and the NYPD and the Zionist lobby
I may be a loser, but I’m not a nobody! I won that Caucus fair and square
you were bern’d but more importantly you were lern’d. regardless of anything that can be said about sanders he was sadly still the best shot at some sort of relief for working people in this god forsaken shit hole. bernie was the true “lesser of two evils”. not like a kamala trump situation where they’re just both evil evil
I phone banked and door knocked for him. Sure he fuckin sucks but if he had won it would have been better than any other outcome.
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I’m letting my Bernie bumper sticker fade off naturally
My Sunset Sarsaparilla Sheriff badge sticker on the other hand is being taken care of
That thing got me out of several tickets
My Sunset Sarsaparilla Sheriff badge sticker on the other hand is being taken care of
That thing got me out of several tickets
my personal fell for it again trophy is a bernie 2016 mug that has cracks forming on the inside (plastic mug) which is weirdly poetic
smoking that bernie superpack
aww i remember those days! i thought i was as cynical as i was gonna get ha ha ha ha ha ha
not as embarrassing as me, who still probably has obama merch in storage somewhere
It’s ok, I’ve got an AOC Green New Deal poster rolled up somewhere, back from 2017ish
Hey, don’t feel bad. I have a couple Yang merch after spending 2019 on some of the hardest copium money can buy.
