Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: More than one-third of Democratic voters want Bernie Sanders to drop out of the 2020 presidential... [View all]Doitnow
(1,103 posts)I watched LOTS of Bernie's speeches prior to the 2016 election. Late in the race, Trump SAID all the great things he was going to do for everybody, mimicking Bernie because he saw how Bernie was attracting new followers.... but Trump was LYING. Bernie does NOT lie. Bernie has been saying the same things for years because the same things have been going wrong still and people want a lot of things changed. That does not make Bernie a radical. A lot of things need changing.
I, for one, will vote for Biden, if I have to, but my heart won't be in it because Biden will be much like Hilary. He will have to be dragged to do much. He won't even show up now for different candidate events. Does he want a coronation or something? And still the media fawns over him like they did for Trump, excusing him for past misdeeds which have been offensive to certain groups.
As for the socialist label that you think trump will hang on Bernie. That will only happen if YOU LET IT. Most all the other candidates have borrowed the same language and the more the better. People know that Bernie wants the same things the majority wants.
Bernie constantly asks for people to come together. He is not divisive as many would say who would tell him to stop running for office. Who has any right to tell him not to?
It's very early in the race. As I said before, I will vote for any Dem in the general who wins, but so much nastiness is going on against Bernie daily, I doubt the reverse will be true for many other-than-Bernie folks. Is that what you really want? Then surely trump will win.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided